Garry Winogrand- Artist
I stumbled onto Garry Winogrand and my first genuine reaction was " Wow...". This series is known as his unseen color, and through it he perfectly captured some essence and undertones of the American way of life. The first picture for example demonstrates freedom or the desire for it, due to the nature of opression, and racism. Not only is it a strong subject, but it is greatly portrayed. The boy in the middle he symbolize " The one whose in search of something more in life", the man hunched over is the one who accepts life as it is , and this is all that he'll ever be. The last boy near the water is but a bystander laughing, whose just along for the ride, a non believer; All this combined creates amazing symmetry within the piece.
The second picture best exemplifies a man whose ready to find a bride or lets say "the one". By the looks of him, he has a substantial job, but is flawed with the symbology of the color black. The symbology being that he is lost, tangled in the webs that he's made. Anxious, prose with questions such as " where am i?' " am I loved?" , and that fear that " I'm just sinking into nothing and I am afraid to die alone." As he passes by the grand windows with the mannequins in the white dress, he fails to realize he shouldn't ponder on such heavy burdens, but show venture out of the darkness for that window of opportunity is right there in front of his eyes.
The third and final picture embodies the horrible truth of how it really is in the world. It's a dog eat fucking dog world. Excuse my french but, I deemed it necessary to curse because looking at this picture infuriates me, even though it's not suppose to. Look closely, the child on the far left stands as the child who is but a witness, and will lose all her innocence when that time comes around. Also, that gravitational pan of ages going across the picture shows the inevitable. The inevitable truth that we will all die someday, and all we can do in our meantime of sinking is fight to live for brighter days.
