New York from Women are Beautiful
Garry Winogrand
American, 1928–1984
1968
A gelatin silver print capturing a candid street moment in which Winogrand frames a young woman mid-bite to convey the spontaneous rhythms of everyday life in 1960s New York.
What arrests you is her absorbed, almost private expression as she lifts a pastry to her mouth, set against a busy, receding city street where pedestrians, cars, and storefronts form a lively, high-contrast backdrop.
Part of the Women are Beautiful series, this work helped redefine street photography with a restless, snapshot aesthetic and a provocative attention to gender and public life that influenced generations of documentary photographers.
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
8 3/4 × 13 1/16" (22.2 × 33.1 cm)
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Credit
Purchase and gift of Barbara Schwartz in memory of Eugene M. Schwartz
Accession
764.2007
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