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October 13, 2011
The Foam Festival is one of the UK's leading international contemporary festivals of photography and related media, with this year's programme being curated around the theme of street photography.
I guess that it is only fitting that there is an exhibition of Garry Winogrand's colour work, most if not all shot on archival Kodachrome slide film.
Garry Winogrand, untitled, circa 1958-1964
If there ever was an exponent of street photography it is Winogrand's work from the early 1960s to the 1980s. His photographic persona is one of roaming the streets of New York with his 35mm Leica M4 camera rapidly taking photographs--almost an obsessive picture-taking machine. Winogrand left behind nearly 300,000 unedited images, and more than 2,500 undeveloped rolls of film, mostly (mostly Tri-X),
He was a self-proclaimed modernist, given his remarks that "Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed", and that "A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera saw a piece of time and space." However I am sure that some of Winogrand's stuff was shot on the fly, with scant regard for composition, only for content.
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