Central Park Zoo-New York City, New York

Garry Winogrand

Object Label

During periods of separation from his first wife in the early 1960s, Winogrand began visiting New York City zoos and the Coney Island Aquarium with their children. Many of the photographs he made during those trips reveal the often humorous parallels between the behaviors of humans and animals. Reflecting on the 1960s today, one could read the depiction of captivity as a metaphor for the racial and gender segregations of the era, while also serving as an examination of voyeurism and photography. Forty-six of the zoo pictures were published in Winogrand’s second book, The Animals (1969).

Caption

Garry Winogrand (American, 1928–1984). Central Park Zoo-New York City, New York, 1962; reprinted 1974. Gelatin silver print, Other (Mount): 14 3/4 x 19 3/4 in. (37.5 x 50.2 cm) Image: 8 9/16 x 12 7/8 in. (21.7 x 32.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Renata Shapiro, 83.266.3. © The Estate of Garry Winogrand, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco.

Gallery

Not on view

Collection

Photography

Title

Central Park Zoo-New York City, New York

Date

1962; reprinted 1974

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Classification

Photograph

Dimensions

Other (Mount): 14 3/4 x 19 3/4 in. (37.5 x 50.2 cm) Image: 8 9/16 x 12 7/8 in. (21.7 x 32.7 cm)

Signatures

Signed in graphite, lower right: "Garry Winogrand"

Credit Line

Gift of Renata Shapiro

Accession Number

83.266.3

Rights

© The Estate of Garry Winogrand, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

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