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Garry Winogrand ๊ฒŒ๋ฆฌ ์œ„๋…ธ๊ทธ๋žœ๋“œ

Updated: Dec 10, 2023


Capturing the Unseen Moments of Everyday Life



Garry Winogrand, an influential figure in street photography, is renowned for his ability to capture the spontaneous and sometimes chaotic moments of everyday life. Through his lens, he transformed the mundane into the extraordinary, offering a unique perspective on the human experience. In this blog post, we explore the life, work, and enduring legacy of Garry Winogrand, a master of capturing the raw energy and complexity of the streets.


Early Life and Influences:

Born on January 14, 1928, in the Bronx, New York, Garry Winogrand developed an early interest in photography. Influenced by photographers like Henri Cartier-Bresson and Walker Evans, Winogrand began his career as a freelance photographer in the 1950s. His work during this period reflected an evolving fascination with the immediacy and authenticity of street life.


Street Photography as a Form of Inquiry:

Winogrand's approach to street photography was characterized by an insatiable curiosity about the world around him. Armed with his camera, he walked the streets of New York City and later other urban landscapes, capturing the unscripted, unposed moments that revealed the complexity of human interactions. His photographs often served as a form of sociological inquiry, documenting the evolving dynamics of American society.


In the 1960s, Winogrand gained widespread recognition for his groundbreaking book, "The Animals." The collection showcased a diverse array of candid images, each frame pulsating with energy and spontaneity. Through this work, Winogrand demonstrated an unparalleled ability to find meaning in the seemingly chaotic scenes of urban life, creating a visual narrative that transcended traditional photographic norms.


Prolific Output and Unprocessed Negatives:

Winogrand was known for his incredibly prolific output, capturing thousands of frames in a single day. His method involved shooting without looking through the viewfinder, relying on intuition and instinct. This unorthodox approach resulted in a vast archive of unprocessed negatives at the time of his death in 1984. The posthumous exploration of this treasure trove has added another layer to Winogrand's mystique and deepened our understanding of his creative process.


Legacy and Influence:

Garry Winogrand's legacy is profound, influencing generations of street photographers who followed in his footsteps. His work challenges viewers to confront the often chaotic and contradictory nature of modern life. Winogrand's ability to find beauty and meaning in the midst of apparent disorder has left an indelible mark on the world of photography, inspiring photographers to embrace spontaneity and seek truth in the unscripted moments of everyday existence.


Garry Winogrand's contribution to street photography extends beyond his technical prowess; it lies in his intuitive ability to recognize the beauty and complexity inherent in the ordinary. His candid snapshots of life on the streets continue to resonate, inviting viewers to see the world through his perceptive and unfiltered lens. In capturing the chaotic beauty of everyday life, Winogrand not only documented his era but also left an enduring legacy that transcends time and continues to inspire photographers around the globe.



์ผ์ƒ์ƒํ™œ์—์„œ ๋ณด์ด์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์„ ํฌ์ฐฉํ•˜๋‹ค


๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ์‚ฌ์ง„๊ณ„์˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ๋ ฅ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ธ๋ฌผ์ธ ๊ฒŒ๋ฆฌ ์œ„๋…ธ๊ทธ๋žœ๋“œ๋Š”์ผ์ƒ ์ƒํ™œ์˜ ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ณ  ๋•Œ๋กœ๋Š” ํ˜ผ๋ž€์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์„ ํฌ์ฐฉํ•˜๋Š” ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์œผ๋กœ ์œ ๋ช…ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๋ Œ์ฆˆ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ํ‰๋ฒ”ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋น„๋ฒ”ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐ”๊พธ์–ด ์ธ๊ฐ„ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋…ํŠนํ•œ ๊ด€์ ์„ ์ œ์‹œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋ธ”๋กœ๊ทธ ๊ฒŒ์‹œ๋ฌผ์—์„œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์›์ดˆ์ ์ธ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€์™€ ๋ณต์žก์„ฑ์„ ํฌ์ฐฉํ•˜๋Š” ๋Œ€๊ฐ€์ธ ๊ฒŒ๋ฆฌ ์œ„๋…ธ๊ทธ๋žœ๋“œ์˜ ์‚ถ๊ณผ ์ผ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ์œ ์‚ฐ์„ ํƒ๊ตฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


์ Š์€ ์‹œ์ ˆ ์‚ถ ์˜ํ–ฅ:

1928๋…„ 1์›” 14์ผ ๋‰ด์š• ๋ธŒ๋กฑํฌ์Šค์—์„œ ํƒœ์–ด๋‚œ ๊ฒŒ๋ฆฌ ์œ„๋…ธ๊ทธ๋žœ๋“œ๋Š” ์–ด๋ฆด ๋•Œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์‚ฌ์ง„์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ด€์‹ฌ์„ ๊ฐ–๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•™๋ฆฌ ์นด๋ฅดํ‹ฐ์— ๋ธŒ๋ ˆ์†ก๊ณผ ์›Œ์ปค ์—๋ฐ˜์Šคย ๊ฐ™์€ ์‚ฌ์ง„๊ฐ€๋“ค์˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฐ›์€ ์œ„๋…ธ๊ทธ๋ž‘์€ 1950๋…„๋Œ€ ํ”„๋ฆฌ๋žœ์„œ ์‚ฌ์ง„๊ฐ€๋กœ ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ๋™์•ˆ์˜ ๊ทธ์˜ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์€ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ์ƒํ™œ์˜ ์ฆ‰๊ฐ์„ฑ๊ณผ ์ง„์ •์„ฑ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ ์  ๋” ๋งค๋ฃŒ๋˜๋Š” ๋ชจ์Šต์„ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


ํƒ๊ตฌ์˜ ํ•œ ํ˜•ํƒœ๋กœ์„œ์˜ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ์‚ฌ์ง„:

๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ์‚ฌ์ง„์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์œ„๋…ธ๊ทธ๋žœ๋“œ์˜ ์ ‘๊ทผ ๋ฐฉ์‹์€ ์ฃผ๋ณ€ ์„ธ๊ณ„์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋์—†๋Š” ํ˜ธ๊ธฐ์‹ฌ์ด ํŠน์ง•์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์นด๋ฉ”๋ผ๋กœ ๋ฌด์žฅํ•œ ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋‰ด์š• ์‹œ์˜ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ์™€ ์ดํ›„์˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋„์‹œ ํ’๊ฒฝ์„ ๊ฑธ์œผ๋ฉฐ ์ธ๊ฐ„ ์ƒํ˜ธ ์ž‘์šฉ์˜ ๋ณต์žก์„ฑ์„ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚ด๋Š” ๋Œ€๋ณธ๋„ ์—†๊ณ  ํฌ์ฆˆ๋„ ์ทจํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์€ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์„ ํฌ์ฐฉํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์˜ ์‚ฌ์ง„์€ ์ข…์ข… ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์‚ฌํšŒ์˜ ๋ฐœ์ „ํ•˜๋Š” ์—ญ๋™์„ฑ์„ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌํšŒํ•™์  ํƒ๊ตฌ์˜ ํ•œ ํ˜•ํƒœ๋กœ ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


1960๋…„๋Œ€์— ์œ„๋…ธ๊ทธ๋žœ๋“œ๋Š” ๊ทธ์˜ ํš๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ์ฑ… "๋™๋ฌผ๋“ค"๋กœ ๋„๋ฆฌ ์ธ์ •์„ ๋ฐ›์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ปฌ๋ ‰์…˜์€ ๊ฐ ํ”„๋ ˆ์ž„์ด ์—๋„ˆ์ง€์™€ ์ž๋ฐœ์„ฑ์„ ๊ณ ๋™์น˜๋Š” ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์†”์งํ•œ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€๋ฅผ ์„ ๋ณด์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์œ„๋…ธ๊ทธ๋žœ๋“œ๋Š” ๊ฒ‰๋ณด๊ธฐ์— ํ˜ผ๋ž€์Šค๋Ÿฌ์›Œ ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ๋„์‹œ ์ƒํ™œ์˜ ์žฅ๋ฉด์—์„œ ์˜๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ์ฐพ๋Š” ํƒ์›”ํ•œ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๋ฉด์„œ ์ „ํ†ต์ ์ธ ์‚ฌ์ง„ ๊ทœ๋ฒ”์„ ๋›ฐ์–ด๋„˜๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ์  ๋‚ด๋Ÿฌํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด๋ƒˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


๋Œ€๋Ÿ‰ ์ถœ๋ ฅ ๋ฐ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์€ ๋„ค๊ฑฐํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ:

์œ„๋…ธ๊ทธ๋žœ๋“œ๋Š” ํ•˜๋ฃจ์— ์ˆ˜์ฒœ ํ”„๋ ˆ์ž„์„ ์บก์ฒ˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฏฟ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์—†์„ ๋งŒํผ ๋งŽ์€ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฌผ๋กœ ์œ ๋ช…ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์˜ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์€ ๋ทฐํŒŒ์ธ๋”๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ์ง๊ด€๊ณผ ๋ณธ๋Šฅ์— ์˜์กดํ•˜์—ฌ ์ดฌ์˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋น„์ •ํ†ต์ ์ธ ์ ‘๊ทผ ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด 1984๋…„ ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ์‚ฌ๋งํ•  ๋‹น์‹œ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์€ ๋„ค๊ฑฐํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ์˜ ๋ฐฉ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์•„์นด์ด๋ธŒ๊ฐ€ ํƒ„์ƒํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋ณด๋ฌผ ์ฐฝ๊ณ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์‚ฌํ›„ ํƒํ—˜์€ ์œ„๋…ธ๊ทธ๋žœ๋“œ์˜ ์‹ ๋น„๋กœ์›€์— ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ธต์„ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ทธ์˜ ์ฐฝ์ž‘ ๊ณผ์ •์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ดํ•ด๋ฅผ ๊นŠ๊ฒŒ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


์œ ์‚ฐ๊ณผ ์˜ํ–ฅ๋ ฅ:

๊ฒŒ๋ฆฌ ์œ„๋…ธ๊ทธ๋žœ๋“œ์˜ ์œ ์‚ฐ์€ ์‹ฌ์˜คํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๊ทธ์˜ ๋ฐœ์ž์ทจ๋ฅผ ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋Š” ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์„ธ๋Œ€์˜ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ์‚ฌ์ง„๊ฐ€๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์นฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์˜ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์€ ๊ด€๊ฐ๋“ค๋กœ ํ•˜์—ฌ๊ธˆ ํ˜„๋Œ€ ์ƒํ™œ์˜ ์ข…์ข… ํ˜ผ๋ž€์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ณ  ๋ชจ์ˆœ์ ์ธ ๋ณธ์งˆ์— ์ง๋ฉดํ•˜๋„๋ก ๋„์ „ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ช…๋ฐฑํ•œ ๋ฌด์งˆ์„œ ์†์—์„œ๋„ ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์›€๊ณผ ์˜๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ์ฐพ๋Š” ์œ„๋…ธ๊ทธ๋žœ๋“œ์˜ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์€ ์‚ฌ์ง„ ์„ธ๊ณ„์— ์ง€์šธ ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ํ”์ ์„ ๋‚จ๊ฒผ๊ณ , ์‚ฌ์ง„๊ฐ€๋“ค์ด ์ผ์ƒ์˜ ๋Œ€๋ณธ์— ์—†๋Š” ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์—์„œ ์ž๋ฐœ์„ฑ์„ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์ด๊ณ  ์ง„์‹ค์„ ์ฐพ๋„๋ก ์˜๊ฐ์„ ์ฃผ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ์‚ฌ์ง„์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฒŒ๋ฆฌ ์œ„๋…ธ๊ทธ๋žœ๋“œ์˜ ๊ธฐ์—ฌ๋Š” ๊ทธ์˜ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์  ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์„ ๋›ฐ์–ด ๋„˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ํ‰๋ฒ”ํ•จ ์†์— ๋‚ด์žฌ๋œ ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์›€๊ณผ ๋ณต์žก์„ฑ์„ ์ธ์‹ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ทธ์˜ ์ง๊ด€์ ์ธ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์— ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ์—์„œ์˜ ์‚ถ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ทธ์˜ ์†”์งํ•œ ์Šค๋ƒ…์ƒท์€ ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ์šธ๋ ค ํผ์ง€๋ฉฐ ์‹œ์ฒญ์ž๋“ค์ด ๊ทธ์˜ ํ†ต์ฐฐ๋ ฅ ์žˆ๊ณ  ์—ฌ๊ณผ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์€ ๋ Œ์ฆˆ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์„ธ์ƒ์„ ๋ณด๋„๋ก ์œ ๋„ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ผ์ƒ ์ƒํ™œ์˜ ํ˜ผ๋ž€์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์›€์„ ํฌ์ฐฉํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์œ„๋…ธ๊ทธ๋žœ๋“œ๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์‹œ๋Œ€๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์„ ๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ์ดˆ์›”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„ ์‚ฌ์ง„๊ฐ€๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ์˜๊ฐ์„ ์ฃผ๋Š” ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ์œ ์‚ฐ์„ ๋‚จ๊ฒผ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


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