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Garry Winogrand (1928-1984)Nick Biondi, Golden Gloves Boxer, January 1954 Gelatin silver print, printed 1954, signed and inscribed 'Garry Winogrand took this picture of me, Jan 1954' in ink and dated stamped '19 Feb 1954' on the verso. 8 3/4 x 13 1/2in (22.2 x 39.3cm) FootnotesIn 1954 Garry Winogrand then a twenty-six-year-old commercial photographer, was commissioned by Sports Illustrated to do a story about a young boxer named Nick Biondi. The two struck up a friendship and stayed in touch until Winogrand moved from New York in 1971. When Biondi did not live up to his early potential, Sports Illustrated no longer wanted the story and so Winogrand recycled it as a human interest tale of a young amateur boxer's life and sold it to Pageant magazine where it appeared in its May 1955 issue. When SFMoMA and The National Gallery announced plans to organize a retrospective of Winogrand's work in 2013, Nick Biondi contacted the institutions and offered to speak about what it was like to be one of Winogrand's subjects. As Biondi recalled in an interview with Erin O'Toole, then assistant curator at SFMoMA: "I was born in Manhattan, New York. Lived there for most of my life, and when I was seventeen I went and applied to the Golden Gloves. I was making headlines during that time because I was having first-round knockouts. Garry Winogrand was assigned to do a photographic study for Sports Illustrated and got in touch with me. . . . He really came around when I had a twelve-second first-round knockout. I still hold the record for that year. Garry came to the third fight, and I won that fight; he took pictures. Garry became fascinated that a seventeen-year-old kid had a social club in Manhattan, consisting of fourteen teenagers—a place they could go to socialize with their dates to get off the street corners, where the police would not arrest them. Where they would pay their dues and the rent each month and continue the social structure for five years. Garry came from the co-ops of the Bronx, and our club house was a co-op in Manhattan. ...I followed his career, of course, from a distance. I lost touch when he went to California and Texas. But when he was still in the city, I'd run into him. I'd tell him about my latest love affair and that kind of thing, and we'd commiserate. ...I ran into him with a girl once, in front of his West Side apartment, and we went up to the apartment. He pulled out a lot of photographs to show me from years back and gave me a bunch of them. I think that was when I asked him, "Garry, what is the most creative thing you've ever done in your life?" And without missing a beat, he replied, "Having children." I never forgot that because it offered the possibility for me to be just as creative as Garry!"