Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable

(Sasha Waters Freyer, US 2018, 90 min., DCP)

One Take Film Festival. Described as a poet, an athlete, and a philosopher of photography, Garry Winogrand harnessed the serendipity of the streets to capture 1960s and ’70s America. His Leica M4 snapped spontaneous images of everyday people, from the Mad Men era of New York to the early years of the Women’s Movement to post–Golden Age Hollywood, all while observing themes of cultural upheaval, political disillusionment, intimacy, and alienation. Once derided by the critics, Winogrand’s snapshot aesthetic is now a universal language of contemporary image making. Featuring interviews with photographer Tod Papageorge, writer/producer Matthew Weiner, and former MoMA curator John Szarkowski, the film covers Winogrand’s life, including selections from the thousands of rolls of film left undeveloped upon his unexpected death in 1984.

The One Take Film Festival is Rochester’s festival of documentary film, now in its third year, supported by the Little Theatre and the Dryden Theatre. Please visit http://otff.org/ for further details about the festival.

Q&A following the screening with filmmaker Sasha Waters Freyer in person!

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