New York-born Garry Winogrand (1928-1984) is known as a pioneer of street photography. In his series Women are Beautiful, he walked the streets of the United States photographing women. The photographs were taken in a quick, precise instant and from different angles.
Winogrand chose the right era for his photographs. The 1960s and 1970s were the height of second-wave feminism and the sexual revolution. Women experienced transformative changes in attitude through their powerful exercise of inner and outward freedom.