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Woman at Opening of Metropolitan Museum, New York
Woman at Opening of Metropolitan Museum, New York
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Object number1976/7.11

Woman at Opening of Metropolitan Museum, New York

Artist (American, 1928-1984)
Dateca. 1974
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensionsimage: 8 11/16 × 13 1/2 in. (22.1 × 34.3 cm)
sheet: 11 × 13 15/16 in. (27.9 × 35.4 cm)
mat: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
Credit LineDirector's Fund
Exhibition History"Kalamazoo Collects Photography," KIA (Mar. 1980). "Artists as Storytellers," KIA Nay Gallery (Feb. 12 - Nov. 10, 2000). "The Woman as Subject: Selections from the Permanent Collection," KIA Long Gallery (June 13 - Sept. 8, 2003). "Photo Affinities," Art Center of Battle Creek (Jan. 6 - Mar. 4, 2003). "The Thing Itself: Daguerreotype to Digital," Dennos Museum Center (Dec. 6, 2003 - Mar. 7, 2004). "Framing Moments: Photography from KIA's Permanent Collection," KIA (Feb. 6 - May 16, 2021) Label TextGarry Winogrand is known as one of America’s great street photographers. A native New Yorker, he dedicated much of his attention to chance shots of life in the city. Winogrand’s images were created on the spur-of-the-moment and the people in them were rarely asked for permission to be photographed. This image of a guest at a gala art museum event appeared with more than 80 others in a book Winogrand published in 1975 called Women Are Beautiful. Most critics panned the project as a failure, calling Winogrand tone-deaf because he seemed to sexualize all his subjects intentionally during a time when women’s rights were a major topic of public contention. [Framing Moments Exhibition, 2021]