From the Museum to the Street: Garry Winogrand’s <i>Public Relations</i> and the Actuality of Protest

Focusing on Garry Winogrand’s <i>Public Relations</i> (1977), this article explores the problematic encounter between street photography and protest during the Vietnam War era. In doing so, it considers the extent to which Winogrand’s engagement with protest altered t...

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Main Author:	Simon Constantine
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2019-05-01
Series:	Arts
Subjects:	street photography Winogrand formalism protest Vietnam War documentary
Online Access:	https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/8/2/59

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title	From the Museum to the Street: Garry Winogrand’s <i>Public Relations</i> and the Actuality of Protest
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description	Focusing on Garry Winogrand’s <i>Public Relations</i> (1977), this article explores the problematic encounter between street photography and protest during the Vietnam War era. In doing so, it considers the extent to which Winogrand’s engagement with protest altered the formalist discourse that had surrounded his practice and the ‘genre’ of street photography more broadly since the 1950s. It is suggested that, although Winogrand never abandoned his debt to this framework, the logic of protest also intensified its internal contradictions, prompting a new attitude towards the crowd, art institution, street and mass media. By exploring this shift, this article seeks to demonstrate that, while the various leftist critiques of Winogrand’s practice remain valid, <i>Public Relations</i> had certain affinities with the progressive artistic and political movements of the period.
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From the Museum to the Street: Garry Winogrand’s <i>Public Relations</i> and the Actuality of Protest

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