Synopses & Reviews
What Winogrand] has given us in these photographs is a unilateral report of how we behaved under pressure during a time of costumes and causes, and of how extravagantly, outrageously, and continuously we displayed what we wanted. --Tod Papageorge
Public Relations is a distillation of a photographic project begun by Garry Winogrand in 1969 when he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to photograph what he called the effect of media on events. With his characteristic zeal, passion, spontaneity, and intensity, Winogrand photographed an array of public events including museum openings, press conferences, sports games, demonstrations, award ceremonies, a birthday party, and a moon shot. The photographs depict our emerging dependence on the media as well as how the media changes and sometimes even creates the event itself. First published to accompany a 1977 exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Synopsis
Public Relations is a distillation of a photographic project begun in 1969 when Garry Winogrand was awarded as a Guggenheim Fellowship to photograph what he called the influence of the media on events." Winogrand has assembled here a gallery of America's tribal rites: marches, press conferences, award ceremonies, a birthday party, and a moon shot-a unilateral report on the world of ersatz ritual and the pseudo-event in the late 1960s. This book was originally published to accompany the 1977 exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art.