Images of New York: ‘West Side Story’ and Garry Winogrand’s ‘Central Park Zoo’
“West Side Story” and Garry Winogrand’s “Central Park Zoo”
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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