Great Black&White Photographers part 2

Garry Winograd

Garry Winograd was born in January 14,1928 and died in March 19, 1984.
He was a street photographer from the Bronx in New York and known for his social issues and his portrayal of American life.  
Winogrand graduated from high school in 1946 and entered the US Army Air Force. He returned to New York in 1947 and studied painting at City College of New York and painting and photography at Columbia University, also in New York, in 1948. He also attended a photojournalism class at The New School for Social Research in New York in 1951.in 1950s and 1960s he worked as a freelance photojournalist and advertising photographer. In 1955 two of his photographs appeared  in The Family of Man exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.  In 1964 Winogrand was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship  "for photographic studies of American life".
With his photographs of the Bronx Zoo and the Coney Island Aquarium he made up his first book The Animals in 1969. At the same year he was awarded his second Guggenheim Fellowship for "the effect of the media on events".  From 1970 to 1978 he supported himself y teaching in Citys like New York, Chicago, Austin and Los Angeles. During this time he published two more books, Woman are beautiful in 1975 and Public Relations in 1977. 
In 1980s he published his second book Stock Photographs, with the focus of  "people in relation to each other and to their show animals".
After a few years Winogrand was diagnosed with gallbladder cancer on 1 February 1984 and went immediately to the Gerson Clinic in Tijuana to seek an alternative cure. One month later he died.