Easter Sunday, Central Park, New York

Garry Winogrand

1971 · Gelatin silver print · Photographs

Working in the street with a wide-angle lens, Winogrand photographed unabashedly, often focusing on people and situations upon which we are taught not to stare or publicly comment. He was particularly attracted to, and skilled at capturing, incidents such as this one, which combine psychological intensity with gestural beauty. The photograph suggests a modern-day passion play enacted before a crowd of onlookers on Easter Sunday in which a risen Christ with outstretched arms runs toward the figures of John the Baptist and Mary Magdalen, who each turn away in pained disbelief.

Artist

Garry Winogrand

Date

1971

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Department

Photographs

Credit line

Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, 1999