Catalogue of the exhibition at KBr, Fundación MAPFRE, Barcelona, from 11 June to 5 September 2021.
 
A photographer of American streets, Garry Winogrand (New York, 1928–1984) is recognised alongside Diane Arbus and Lee Friedlander as a key figure in the renewal of documentary photography.
 
Winogrand began working for popular magazines such as Life, Look and Sports Illustrated, but soon left photojournalism to devote himself to a new photographic culture connected with the art world. From 1955 onwards, he travelled widely across the United States, seeking to record demonstrations and the peace and countercultural movements of the 1960s arising from the Vietnam War and the missile crisis. His photographs reflect a sense of national disintegration.
 
His almost compulsive approach to photography captures the chaos and vitality of American society over three decades. His extensive work, made amid the flow of urban life, presents reality as it is, without moral judgement, as though creating a catalogue of everyday life.