World's Fair, New York City

In 1964, a year in which race riots and the Beatles both exploded across the United States, Garry Winogrand received a Guggenheim fellowship and embarked on a cross-country trip that led him to take almost 20,000 images. Some of his most memorable photographs that year, however, were made in his native New York. Using a small 35mm camera, Winogrand redefined street photography, nimbly capturing chance juxtapositions and unconsciously repeated gestures. He photographed incessantly and swiftly, claiming, "I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed." This image was selected by John Szarkowski, then curator of photography at the Museum of Modern Art, as part of Women Are Beautiful, a 1975 portfolio of 85 images of women taken by Winogrand over a number of years.