Tags archives: Intelligent Lives
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6 years ago
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Two very worthwhile documentaries open this week in New York City: Sasha Waters Freyer's Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable is a portrait of the groundbreaking photographer responsible for some of the most memorable images of the 1950s through '70s; Dan Habib’s Intelligent Lives follows three young adults who are challenging old ideas of what is achievable for those with intellectual disabilities.
Most of us have been intrigued by least one Garry Winogrand photo; perhaps “New York World’s Fair, 1964," featuring several white women and one African-American man on a park bench; or the untitled image of a man upside down in midair on a city street. Winogrand's photos, which capture nuance a well as overt movement, and the man “who turned street photography on its head” himself are both examined in All Things Are Photographable, an enjoyable doc full of images famous and lesser known. Along with testimonials from fellow photographers, museum curators and Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner, Freyer includes interview snippets with the late Winogrand himself, a gruff, outspoken Bronx native who often resisted analyzing his photographs, insisting that “all a photograph does is describe light on surface.” But Winogrand also admitted that a powerful image “makes you question what you think you know," an apt description of his work.
New York Times photo editor Jeffrey Henson Scales likens Winogrand's images to choreography because “everyone is dancing” in them; ano[...]
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