FINK/WINOGRAND
2018-02-26Larry Fink and Garry Winogrand were both actively taking photographs in New York City in the 1970s. Winogrand primarily made photographs during the day of people on the city streets exemplified in the exhibition in a selection of work from his Women are Beautiful series that was made into a book. Larry Fink’s series Social Graces, also resulting in a book, consists of photographs depicting wealthy Manhattanites in the evenings at museum openings, balls, galas, and other such social events. In an effort to acknowledge the fact of social class in the United States, Fink juxtaposes the photographs of socialites with images of his working-class neighbors, the Sabatines, at their family gatherings and events in rural Pennsylvania. While their subject matter was different, their working style and resulting photographs are similar in that they employed what was called “the snapshot aesthetic.”
Opposite – Garry Winogrand (American, 1928 – 1984) – Centennial Ball, Metropolitan Museum, New York 1969, from Women are Beautiful, c. 1970
Exhibition runs through to March 25th, 2018
Des Moines Art Center
4700 Grand Avenue
Des Moines
50312 IA
