Artefacts

Los Angeles 1984, artistic poster.

Physical description

Black and white portrait of Bill Pettis. Games' emblem and caption: "Los Angeles 1984 Olympic Games". Signed: "Gary Winogrand" on lower right.

Created

Created: Knapp Communications Corporation Created: Garry WINOGRAND Created: Alan Lithograph, Inc.

Materials

paper

Colors

black and white

Dimension

91 x 61 cm

Literature

Comité d'organisation Olympique de Los Angeles. Rapport officiel des Jeux de la XXIIIe Olympiade, Los Angeles 1984. Volume 1: organisation et plannification. Los Angeles, 1985. ISBN #0961451203. "Los Angeles 1984". In: Revue Olympique, Juillet 1982, N° 177, p. 414. DAVIS, David. "The Rise and Fall of Bill Pettis, the Man With the ‘Biggest Arms in the World’". In: Los Angeles Magazine, May 12, 2015, https://www.lamag.com/longform/rise-fall-bill-pettis-man-biggest-arms-world/

Type of item

Posters -> artistic poster

Reference number

36485

Keywords

Cultural event during the Olympic Games photograph Los Angeles 1984, Olympic Games Male Weightlifting emblem

Notes

Gary WINOGRAND (1928 - 1984) American photographer born in New York. In 1955, after discovering Walker Evans’s images of passers-by in the New York subway, Winogrand decided to start photographing people anonymously. The ordinariness of everyday life became his field of experimentation. His photographs never sought to explore people’s intimacy, but rather to capture a moment of life on film, leaving the viewer to interpret the images as he chooses. Gary’s poster… Copy of a black-and-white image in which the photographer immortalises the training session of an anonymous weightlifter. The smile on the amateur athlete’s face gives an idea of his pride at being photographed. Offset lithograph.