My journey ends here...
WINOGRAND Gary
Date of birth : January 14, 1928, New York.
Date of death : March 19, 1984, Tijuana, Mexico.
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His parents Abraham and Bertha had emigrated in 1921 to the US from Poland and Hungary.
Gary grew up with his sister Stella (1930) in a predominantly Jewish working-class area of the Bronx, New York, where his father was a leather worker in the garment industry, and his mother made neckties for
piecemeal work (
).He graduated from high school on 1946 and entered the US Army Air Force.
He returned to New York in 1947 and studied painting at City College of New York, and painting and photography at Columbia University, also in New York in 1951.
In 1952 he married Adrienne Judith Lubeau (November 14, 1934). They had 2 children, Laurie (August
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He worked as a freelance photojournalist and advertising photographer in the 1950s (
) and 1960s. Between 1952 and 1954 he worked at the Pix Photo Agency in Manhattan, and from 1954 at Brackman Associates.
Two of his photos appeared in the 1955 The Family of Man exhibition at the New York MoMA (Museum of Modern Art).
His first solo show was held at Image Gallery in New York in 1959.
His first notable exhibition as in Five Unrelated Photographers in 1963, also at New York MoMa.
In the early 1960s he photographed the streets of New York.
In 1964 he was awarded at Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to travel "for photographic studies of Amercian life".
In 1966 he exhibited at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York with among others, Bruce Davidson, in an exhibition entitled Toward a Social Landsape.
Around 1967 he married his second wife Judy Teller (
). They were together until 1969.He took pictures of the Bronx Zoo (
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) for his first book, "The Animals" (1969).In 1969 he was awarded his second Guggenheim Fellowship to continue exploring "the effect of the media on events". Between 1969 and 1976 he photographed at public events, producing 6 500 prints.
In 1972 he married Eileen Adele Hale, with whom he had a daughter, Melissa Ellen (December 5, 1974,
Texas) (
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).He supported himself in the 1970s by teaching, first in New York. He moved to Chicago in 1971 and taught photography at the Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, between 1971 and 1972.
In 1973 he moved to Texas and taught at the University of Texas at Austin, between 1973 and 1978.
In 1978 he moved to Los Angeles, where he exposed 8 522 rolls of film.
In 1979 he used his third Guggenheim Fellwoship to travel throughout the southern and western United States, investigating the social issues of his time.
On February 1, 1984 he was diagnosed with gallbladder cancer and went immediately to the Gerson Clinic in Tijuana to seek an alternative cure. He died there on March 19, 1984.
He left 250 000 unpublished photos.
Link with Marilyn
He took several pics of Marilyn on the set of "The Seven Year Itch" in September 1954
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