Garry Winogrand was born in New York in 1928 and grew up in the then predominantly Jewish working-class area of the Bronx. After a short two year stint as a weather forecaster in the US Army in the late 1940s, Winogrand enrolled on a painting course at Columbia University, New York and it was while there, that he began to experiment with photography. Influenced by the photographs of Walker Evans, he was a contemporary of the photographers Diane Arbus and Lee Friedlander. Uninterested in the exploitative quality of photojournalism, Winogrand injected the documentary photograph with empathy, often doing this by taking a step back from his subject matter rather than focusing in. Winogrand died in 1984.

Channel 4 holds two works by Winogrand in the Channel 4 collection: New York, 1970, Untitled, 1999 and Three prints.