Los Angeles

1980-1983, printed 2012

Garry Winogrand

Associated Names
Garry Winogrand

Artist, American, 1928 - 1984

Teresa Engle Schirmer

Printer, American, born 1957

This is a photograph of a playground behind a chain-link fence. The image captures a scene where children are engaging with the park. The focus is on the chain-link fence, which is diagonally oriented across the frame. The figures behind the fence are in motion. The background shows the external walls of a building, casting shadows on the ground. The black and white format accentuates textures and shapes.
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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Garry Winogrand Archive, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; NGA purchase, 2014.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2013

  • Garry Winogrand: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA, March 9–June 2, 2013; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, March 2–June 8, 2014; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, June 27–September 21, 2014; Jeu de Paume, Paris, October 14, 2014–January 25, 2015; Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid, March 3–May 10, 2015

Bibliography

2013

  • Garry Winogrand. Exh. cat. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2013: pl. 302.

Inscriptions

on verso, lower right stamped in black ink: Authorized posthumous print from an original Garry Winogrand negative / The Garry Winogrand Archive / Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona / Printed by Teresa Engle Schirmer, 2012 / Edition 1/2, 16 x 20 inches / © The Estate of Garry Winogrand / This print can never be sold or deaccessioned.; by unknown hand, bottom left in graphite: x2013.505.943

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