Garry Winnogrand Exhibit

Earlier this weekend on a seemingly warm end of summer day I decided to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art for only the second time in my life. Normally I do not go to art museums but I had to check out the late Garry Winnogrand exhibit there and I was thoroughly impressed and moved.

Personally I absolutely hate when people take staged photos, I feel that they are tacky, bland and way too common. So chances are the reason I absolutely loved the Winnogrand Exhibit is because his art of photos were so real, so lively and so powerful. In art like his when he captures not only true emotion but also the whole surrounding setting is full of life as well. That is what I really love about his pictures, they are full of life even years after Winnogrand is dead, they are lively and full of the very essence of the people captured even after all these years when they are now much older.

This was one of my favorite pictures seen its called “Coney Island” and it perfectly exemplifies what I spoke about above. This photo is full of life and not just the people who are the main fixture of the picture but also everyone around them such as the little boy on the left as well as the water.