The genius of Garry Winogrand was that his photographs captured ordinary moments from everyday life and made them fascinating. He could tell a complicated story from a single image. He shot primarily on the street, often in NYC and L.A., snapping off dozens of photos during a fleeting moment. He was a brilliant photo journalist, a documentarian that required only one frame of film. Even the best documentary filmmakers like Errol Morris use thousands of feet of film to tell their stories. Winogrand? Just a single shot. Part of the fun of Winogrand’s work is making up the stories that accompany each shot. Take a look a couple of his most iconic, as well as a few we simply like a lot, and see what you can come up with.

– Los Angeles, 1964
– White Sand
– Las Vegas, NV 1957
– Central Park Zoo, 1964
– Untitled (flip)
– Houston, 1964
– New York City, 1972
– Untitled (football)

If you want to see Winogrand’s work in person, San Francisco’s SFMOMA has a nice collection, as does NYC’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Getty in Los Angeles.