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Garry Winogrand (1928–1984) was born in New York, attended high school there, and served with the United States Army Air Force in Georgia before studying painting at Columbia University and photography at the New School for Social Research. During the 1950s he joined the American Society of Magazine Photographers and worked on assignment for Harper's Bazaar, among other publications. He married, made a cross-country photographic trip, appeared in two exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, including the acclaimed Family of Man, and had two children. Winogrand began to show his photographs in galleries in 1960, but freelance magazine work still paid the bills.
After divorce and remarriage made his private life chaotic, his career veered away from the commercial to a more personal photojournalism. What he described as his ability "to live within the photographic process" helped him convert familiar street subjects into unexpected two-dimensional compositions. Manic energy compelled him to be out in the city every day. Although he liked to have shooting companions, Winogrand seemed to commandeer "virtually exclusive photographic rights to the streets of Manhattan," photographer and Yale professor Todd Papageorge reports. By the end of the sixties, he had also taken up teaching, working in Chicago and Austin, until sales of his prints, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, made it possible for him to move to Los Angeles in 1978.
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