Throughout his career Garry Winogrand produced one of the most surprising and innovative portrayals of street life in the history of photography. Winogrand created complex images that “are highly evocative, yet not very telling, and require unhurried contemplation”. With his repertoire of images depicting the chaotic and lively North American society of the 1960s, Winogrand became a flaneur—in the way of Charles Baudelaire—amidst the urban flux.

The artist described the world without moral judgments. He embraced a direct style of photography that did not resort to technical manipulation. A small camera allowed him to take quick shots that occasionally contravened the medium’s norms.