Garry Winogrand.

Garry Winogrand was born in New York City in 1928; he became interested in photography in the late 1940's when he was in the United States Air Force. When he was done his term of duty, he went on to City College in New York City to study painting. A year later he went to Columbia University to study both painting and photography. There he met George Zimbel, a student and photographer for the Columbia Spectator, …

…photography is to become. One that remains dense, troubling, unfinished, and profoundly challenging. Garry Winogrand was a man of extraordinary intelligence, original sensibility, and modest learning who from his early limited successes. He discovered through experiment and intuition. He learned to live in the process of photography. I believe that Winogrand was a refiner, he not only perfected, (if he liked it or not) the "snapshot aesthetic" but also made photography more elegant and alluring.