Garry Winogrand spent most of his adult life taking pictures of random people on the streets of New York City, and later Los Angeles. The documentary we watched did not convince me that he was a great photographer though. If you dedicate your whole life to anything, you must accidentally have some good moments just by the law of averages. Some of his pictures will be uncharacteristically amazing just by sheer luck. He might have happened to be in the right place, at the right time, and took enough pictures. If he was not running on accidental successes, then we should have seen a high ratio of exceptional photos to mediocre photos, but Garry had to take hundreds of thousands if not millions of photos just to fill a few books with his best photos. If I decided today that I was going to start gambling, then there would be some days where I do exceptionally well at the casino, despite the fact that I have not gotten any better at gambling. Cynicism aside, Winogrand did seem to have contributed to American culture and academic photography despite his possible lack of talent. At the very least, he had a lot of grit to keep taking those pictures every single day. His work ethic is much more impressive to me than his ability to take an exceptional photo.