Garry Winogrand

Photographer Garry Winogrand was an acute observer of the social landscape in the United States of the 1960s and 1970s. His preferred arena for making photographs was the street, where, attuned to the unpredictable interactions among passersby, he found humour, pathos and even the absurd - sometimes all in one image. His street was not one of alienation or indifference; it was instead rife with meaningful exchange. Following Walker Evans and Robert Frank, the two photographers he admired most, Winogrand ultimately expanded the vocabulary of social documentary photography, imbuing it with his sense of the intriguing strangeness of people and the environments they inhabit.