San Francisco International Film Festival 2018

[Chris Knipp]

SASHA WATERS FREYER: GARY WINOGRAND: ALL THINGS ARE PHOTOGRAPHABLE (2018)


GARY WINOGRAND

American eye

[CAPSULE REVIEW]

Gary Winogrand was the preeminent New York "street photographer" of the years from midcentury to the Eighties. He was fast, prolific, and messy, and such is his extraordinary work. In this short film we get a sumptuous feast of his photographs (not necessarily organized to best show off their compositions and themes or to illustrate the best of them), with many opinions and recollections from gallerists, museum people, and a few (perhaps not enough) photographers, plus a couple of ex-wives. Not the best introduction, perhaps, but something, and long overdue, since he died in 1984, at 56.

Gary Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable, 87 mins., debuted at SxSW and won the Jury Prize there. Included in the US public TV American Masters series, it was screened for this review as part of the San Francisco International Film Festival.


AN ICONIC PHOTO BY GARY WINOGRAND

SHOWTIMES SFIFF:
Saturday, April 14, 2018 at 8:00 p.m. at SFMOMA
AT RUSH
Sunday, April 15, 2018 at 1:00 p.m. at BAMPFA
AT RUSH