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gumanow (a group admin) says:
27 Jan 11 - Don Hudson, Gumanow and myself, iZENstein, are now going to review images before they are submitted into the pool. Our intention is to edit the pool so that it better represents the essence of what Garry Winogrand was accomplishing with his photography. Please do not take offense if your images are edited from the pool. It does not mean your images are not good. We are simply being judicious in what is a "Winogrand."Read our group description
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About Garry Winogrand Canted Moments
The purpose of this group is to challenge those who truly appreciate the genius of Garry Winogrand and his contribution to street photography. It is the intention for photographers to contribute only those images which reflect Winogrand's socially ironic critique of our world.
I can not emphasize enough the idea of "critique". He critiqued his world by confronting it with his camera. His process of shooting was not passive but direct. He was not poetic for poetry's sake. He did not photograph beautiful light and shadows because it was simply there. He typically photographed people in the context of a confused off balanced world -- he framed his people in direct context to this world. If he was not shooting people then he photographed animals or objects in such a way that the social criticism was still there. Finally, for the most part his images were straight, direct, and mostly focused even when they were canted.
So this is an experiment and challenge to the photographers contibuting to this pool. We should all be rigorious in our selection and self-editing. We should question the validity of our own images in the pool and comment on each others images with respect to its inclusion in the pool. This approach is maybe academic but the main intention is to educate and improve our own photography while paying homage to Garry Winogrand.
I'm not necessarily looking for "decisive moments" like Henri Cartier Bresson. In a sense, I'm looking for those moments between the decisive moments which can seem wrong but they are so right. Winogrand found those moments that at a cursory glance seem random, chaotic, ugly, wrong, but upon closer inspection they are so right about us and our fragile crazy world.
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