Winogrand, Garry. Women Are Beautiful by Garry Winogrand.

Light Gallery with Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1975. With an essay by Helen Gary Bishop.  One of the few monographs published by Winogrand during his lifetime; it was criticized by some feminists as evidencing a "male gaze." First edition, hardcover with protected dust jacket. Book is fine. Dust jacket has a vertical crease on rear panel and two short tears formerly repaired with tape which has been removed but small visible brown stains remain. Still nice copy of scarce book.

Biographical note: Born in the Bronx on January 14, 1928, Garry Winogrand became a quintessential street photographer who had a major influence on the genre.  Although included in the 1955 Family of Man exhibition, Winogrand did not become widely known until the 1967 New Documents exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art, NY, which also included Diane Arbus and Lee Friedlander.  Winogrand’s second book, Women Are Beautiful (1975) was not well received by feminists, perhaps because he was frank in his introduction about some women being more physically attractive to him than others.  He wrote, “Whenever I’ve seen an attractive woman, I’ve done my best to photograph her.  I don’t know if all the women in the photographs are beautiful, but I do know that the women are beautiful in the photographs.” Rather irresponsible about paying bills and managing his personal life, Winogrand left behind 2,500 of rolls of undeveloped rolls of film when he died of gall bladder cancer on March 19, 1984.