Public Relations

photo series by Winogrand

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Garry Winogrand's "Public Relations" is a photo series that explores the impact of media on events. Winogrand photographed high-profile occasions like protests, press conferences, and rallies, aiming to capture how people behave when their actions are being reported. This series, which became a book and an exhibition, is part of his broader work documenting American society through spontaneous street photography.1

Public relations itself is the management of communication between an entity and its interested publics, aiming to shape perceptions through information dissemination, often via mass media.2

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…1970s, one of which was Public Relations. For that series, which Winogrand started shooting in 1969, he photographed high-profile events such as protests, press conferences, sports games, campaign rallies, and museum openings in order to capture what he called “the effect of the media on events”—in other words, the way…
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…1970s, one of which was Public Relations. For that series, which Winogrand started shooting in 1969, he photographed high-profile events such as protests, press conferences, sports games, campaign rallies, and museum openings in order to capture what he called “the effect of the media on events”—in other words, the way…
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