Winogrand's beach scene of a man playfully lifting a woman above the waves appeared in the 1955 "The Family of Man" exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York which then toured the world to be seen by 9 million visitors. His first solo show was held at Image Gallery in New York in 1959. His first notable exhibition was in "Five Unrelated Photographers" in 1963, also at MoMA in New York, along with Minor White, George Krause, Jerome Liebling, and Ken Heyman.