50 min listen
Images of New York: ‘West Side Story’ and Garry Winogrand’s ‘Central Park Zoo’
Images of New York: ‘West Side Story’ and Garry Winogrand’s ‘Central Park Zoo’
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Length:
50 minutes
Released:
Jan 16, 2020
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Podcast episode
Description
Six decades after it premiered on Broadway, “West Side Story” is everywhere again, with a revival on Broadway and a movie in the works. But many still are troubled by the way Puerto Ricans are depicted. Plus, the story behind Garry Winogrand’s 1967 photo, "Central Park Zoo," which featured a white woman and a black man holding chimpanzees dressed in human clothes, and is one of his most widely exhibited — and controversial — images.
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Released:
Jan 16, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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