19 Facts About Garry Winogrand

Garry Winogrand was an American street photographer, who portrayed US life and its social issues in the mid-20th century.

Garry Winogrand received three Guggenheim Fellowships to work on personal projects, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and published four books during his lifetime.

Garry Winogrand was one of three photographers featured in the influential New Documents exhibition at Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1967 and had solo exhibitions there in 1969,1977, and 1988.

Garry Winogrand supported himself by working as a freelance photojournalist and advertising photographer in the 1950s and 1960s, and taught photography in the 1970s.

Garry Winogrand's photographs were featured in photography magazines including Popular Photography, Eros, Contemporary Photographer, and Photography Annual.

Garry Winogrand 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.

Garry Winogrand graduated from high school in 1946 and entered the US Army Air Force.

Garry Winogrand returned to New York in 1947 and studied painting at City College of New York and painting and photography at Columbia University, in New York, in 1948.

Garry Winogrand attended a photojournalism class taught by Alexey Brodovitch at The New School for Social Research in New York in 1951.

Garry Winogrand worked as a freelance photojournalist and advertising photographer in the 1950s and 1960s.

In 1964 Garry Winogrand was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to travel "for photographic studies of American life".

Garry Winogrand took many of these photos when, as a divorced father, accompanying his young children to the zoo for amusement.

Garry Winogrand was awarded his second Guggenheim Fellowship in 1969 to continue exploring "the effect of the media on events", through the then novel phenomenon of events created specifically for the mass media.

Garry Winogrand supported himself in the 1970s by teaching, first in New York.

Garry Winogrand moved to Chicago in 1971 and taught photography at the Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology between 1971 and 1972.

Garry Winogrand moved to Texas in 1973 and taught in the Photography Program in the College of Fine Arts at the University of Texas at Austin between 1973 and 1978.

Garry 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.

Garry Winogrand was interred at Mount Moriah Cemetery in Fairview, New Jersey.

Rubinfien thought, after producing the show and in a shift from his previous estimation of 1966 to 1970, that Garry Winogrand was at his best from 1960 to 1964.