Garry Winogrand (/ˈwɪnəɡrænd/; January 14, 1928 – March 19, 1984) was an American street photographer,[1] who portrayed U.S. life and its social issues in the mid-20th century.

Photography curator, historian, and critic John Szarkowski called Winogrand the central photographer of his generation.

"[6] Phil Coomes, writing for BBC News in 2013, said "For those of us interested in street photography there are a few names that stand out and one of those is Garry Winogrand, whose pictures of New York in the 1960s are a photographic lesson in every frame.

Garry grew up with his sister Stella in a predominantly Jewish working-class area of the Bronx, New York, where his father was a leather worker in the garment industry, and his mother made neckties for piecemeal work.

[4] His first notable exhibition was in Five Unrelated Photographers in 1963, also at MoMA in New York, along with Minor White, George Krause, Jerome Liebling, and Ken Heyman.

[15][16] In 1967 his work was included in the "influential" New Documents show at MoMA in New York[1] with Diane Arbus and Lee Friedlander, curated by John Szarkowski.

At the height of the feminist revolution, he produced Women Are Beautiful, a much-panned photo book that explored his fascination with the female form.

In 1979 he used his third Guggenheim Fellowship[1] to travel throughout the southern and western United States investigating the social issues of his time.

[27] Winogrand was diagnosed with gallbladder cancer on February 1, 1984, and went immediately to the Gerson Clinic in Tijuana, Mexico, to seek an alternative cure ($6,000 per week in 2016).

The Garry Winogrand Archive at the Center for Creative Photography (CCP) comprises over 20,000 fine and work prints, 20,000 contact sheets, 100,000 negatives and 30,500 35 mm colour slides as well as a small number of Polaroid prints and several amateur and independent motion picture[31] films.

Yet more from his largely unexamined archive of early and late work, plus well known photographs, were included in a retrospective touring exhibition beginning in 2013 and in the accompanying book Garry Winogrand (2013).

[33] All of Winogrand's wives and children attended a retrospective exhibit at the San Francisco Art Museum after his death.

[1] Frank Van Riper of the Washington Post described him as "one of the greatest documentary photographers of his era" and added that he was "a bluntspoken, sweet-natured native New Yorker, who had the voice of a Bronx cabbie and the intensity of a pig hunting truffles.

"[5] Phil Coomes, writing for BBC News in 2013, said "For those of us interested in street photography there are a few names that stand out and one of those is Garry Winogrand, whose pictures of New York in the 1960s are a photographic lesson in every frame.