her could forget narrative and concentrate on movement, flesh, gesture, display, and human faces”(Szarkowski, p17). By the early sixties, Winogrand’s marriage was beginning to fail. He became frustrated with his wife Adrienne because she would not disregard her interest in becoming a dancer and go to work to support his desire to become a photographer. It was during time that Gary became extremely preoccupied with photographing women on the streets of New York City. This may have been an attempt to cure his loneliness or possibly fill a void in his life. During the sixties, more and more women were finding their way into the work place. The women’s rights movement was taking shape and it became more common and acceptable for women to go to work. The photo’s that Winogrand captured of these women were made into a collection entitled Women are Beautiful. The collection greatly excited Gary, but disappointed him when the published collection failed to sell. Women were offended and felt that the collection set back the women’s movement. Men were merely mystified and confused, but not intrigued enough to buy Winogrand’s book. Critics and photographers found his collection to be lacking in both quality and subject. He agreed that Women are Beautiful was his weakest collection, but felt that the most interesting photographs were those that were the most controversial.In 1969, Winogrand published another book consisting of forty six of his best pictures from the zoo. During his separation period from his wife, Winogrand would take his children to the Bronx and Central Park Zoo. At the zoo, Gary realized he wanted to capture this American pasttime. Unlike most photographs taken in zoo’s, Winogrand concentrated on both the animals and the people. He wanted to capture the parable he saw of the animals within the zoo imitating the humans. Winogrand tried to capture this in his book The A...
