Counterpoint and Involvement
I have known Garry Winogrand and Lee Friedlander for over 60 years. Introduced them and they became lifelong friends.
Lee invited me to join him in San Francisco to go see a retrospective of Garry’s work. I wandered around the exhibit for a few days and shot some pictures at the show. This one of the man watching a video on Garry intrigued me.
I didn’t think I’d gotten that much. I had really been concentrating on the guy, only glancing at the video image. When I saw later what I’d gotten, I was quite surprised. The image of Garry and the guy watching him had amazing counterpoint.
I see counterpoint as elements in an image that construct an extremely important invisible direct line between or among themselves—one ...
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