Great Black and White Photographers Part 2

 Gary Winogrand was born on January 14, 1928 in New York City. He studied painting, photography, and photojournalism at many different places including City College of New York, Colombia University, and The New School for Social Research. In 1952, Winogrand joined the Pix Photographic Agency. At this time he started working for magazines like Collier's, Sport's Illustrated, and Pageant. He felt like he was being extremely limited therefore he set off on a different path, getting grants and traveling around the country to photograph American life. He published many books including The Animals (1969), Women Are Beautiful (1975), Public Relations (1977), Stock Photograph's: The Fort Worth Fat Stock Show and Rodeo (1980), The Man in the Crowd: The Uneasy Streets of Garry Winogrand (1998), and last but not least The Game of Photography (2001). Winogrand died of Cancer on March 19, 1984. He left over 2,500 rolls of undeveloped film, 6,500 rolls of processed film, and 3,000 rolls of contact sheets. Overall he had a total of 432,000 photos that he took but he died before he was ever able to see them.