Women are Beautiful
Portfolio
Women are Beautiful
1975
Portfolio with gelatin silver prints
4/80
Book: 29.5 x 43 x 6.5 cm
Slip Case: 31 x 43.8 x 8 cm
Gift of Arthur Goldberg, 1984
1983.0151.0001-0085
Inscriptions slip cover recto (embossed in black): Women are Beautiful
book cover recto (embossed in black): Women are Beautiful
title page recto (printed in black): Women are Beautiful
second title page recto (printed in black): Women are Beautiful / Gary Winogrand
Introduction page recto (printed in black): Winogrand on Women / Whenever I've seen an attractive woman, I've done my / best to photograph her. I don't know that the women in the / photographs are beautiful, but i do know that the women are / beautiful in the photographs.
By the term "attractive woman," I mean a woman I react / to, positively. What do I react to in a woman? I do not mean / as a man getting to know a woman, but as a photographer / photographing. I know it's not just prettiness or physical / dimensions. I suspect that i respond to their energies, how / they stand and move their bodies and faces. In the end, the / photographs are descriptions of poses or attitutdes that give / an idea, a hint of their energies. After all, I do not know the / women in these photographs. Not thier names, work, or / lives.
"Women are Beautiful" is a good title for this book / because they are. / Gary Winogrand / Austin, Texas 1975
book cover recto (embossed in black): Women are Beautiful
title page recto (printed in black): Women are Beautiful
second title page recto (printed in black): Women are Beautiful / Gary Winogrand
Introduction page recto (printed in black): Winogrand on Women / Whenever I've seen an attractive woman, I've done my / best to photograph her. I don't know that the women in the / photographs are beautiful, but i do know that the women are / beautiful in the photographs.
By the term "attractive woman," I mean a woman I react / to, positively. What do I react to in a woman? I do not mean / as a man getting to know a woman, but as a photographer / photographing. I know it's not just prettiness or physical / dimensions. I suspect that i respond to their energies, how / they stand and move their bodies and faces. In the end, the / photographs are descriptions of poses or attitutdes that give / an idea, a hint of their energies. After all, I do not know the / women in these photographs. Not thier names, work, or / lives.
"Women are Beautiful" is a good title for this book / because they are. / Gary Winogrand / Austin, Texas 1975
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