Gary Winogrand

(14th January 1928 19th March 1984)

A American street photographer known for
his spontaneous images of people in public
engaged in everyday life, particularly of new
Yorkers during the 1960s. He received three
Guggenheim fellowships to work on personal projects a
fellowship from national endowment for the arts, and published
four books during his lifetime.
His parents Abraham and bertha immigrated to the US from
Budapest and Warsaw. 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.
His photographs of the Bronx zoo and the Coney Island
aquarium made up his first book the animals (1969), a
collection of pictures between humans
Garry .W was married to a woman named Adrienne Lubeau in
1952. They had two children Laurie in 1956 and Ethan in 1958.