"The Animals", Garry Winogrand (1928-1984)

Central Park Zoo, New York, 1967. Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy of MoMA.

Untitled, 1962-63. Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy of MoMA.

Untitled, 1961-63. Image courtesy of MOCA.

New York Aquarium, Coney Island, c. 1963. Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy of MoMA.

Aquarium at Coney Island, 1962. Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy of MoMA.

Untitled, c. 1969. Image courtesy of MOCA.

New York, 1962. Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy of MoMA.

Untitled, 1963. Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy of MoMA.

Untitled, 1962-63. Image courtesy of ICP.

Central Park Zoo, New York, 1962. Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy of MoMA.

Books

The Animals

(MOMA, 2004)

Garry Winogrand

(Yale University Press, 2013)

Garry Winogrand

(Fundación Mapfre, 2021)

Winogrand: Figments from the Real World

(Abrams, 1991)

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