America: Icons and Ingenuity by Winters, Dan

America: Icons and Ingenuity

Winner of the 2012 Los Angeles Book Festival Photography/Art Book Award, Dan Winters' America: Icons and Ingenuity...
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America: Icons and Ingenuity by Winters, Dan

America: Icons and Ingenuity

BD$96.52

America: Icons and Ingenuity

BD$96.52
Author: Dan Winters
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Winner of the 2012 Los Angeles Book Festival Photography/Art Book Award, Dan Winters' America: Icons and Ingenuity is the first retrospective of the career of this talented artist. Winters has spent more than two decades creating memorable photographs for such publications as the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, GQ, and Rolling Stone. Best known for his iconic celebrity portraits, Winters has photographed public figures ranging from the Dalai Lama to President Barack Obama, Hollywood celebrities from Leonardo DiCaprio to Helen Mirren, and artistic luminaries from Jeff Koons to William Christenberry. His style of portraiture is instantly recognizable, characterized by impeccable lighting, muted backgrounds, and the contemplative postures of his sitters.

Winters' lifelong fascination with science, technology, and human ingenuity finds similar expression in significant groups of photographs: close-up studies of honeybees and airplanes and a magnificent series devoted to the last three launches of NASA's space shuttles. These photographs reveal an aspect of Winters' career that is less familiar than his commercial work but equally compelling.

In addition to the popular icons, America includes expressions of Winters' personal vision. This lyrical body of work shows the same keen eye for lighting and composition, but with a decidedly more intimate ambiance: photographs of his wife and son, spare cityscapes, and elegant collages.

America: Icons and Ingenuity also includes a biographical essay that traces his development in a varied and productive career that is, itself, a work in progress.



Author: Dan Winters
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 01/09/2015
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 3.17lbs
Size: 12.20h x 9.80w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780292758094

About the Author
DAN WINTERSAustin, Texas; Los Angeles, California; and Savannah, GeorgiaDan Winters began his career as a photojournalist in Ventura County, California. After winning several regional awards, he moved to New York City and began to work as an editorial photographer. He is widely recognized for his unique celebrity portraiture, scientific photography, drawings, collages, and photojournalism. Winters has been the recipient of more than one hundred national and international awards. In 1998, he received the Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for Magazine Photography; in 2003, he received a World Press Photo Award and was honored by Kodak as a photographic "icon" in their Legends series. Winters has been the subject of seven solo exhibitions in galleries in New York City, Los Angeles, Rome, and Savannah. His most recent book, Last Launch, was published in 2012. Winters' work is represented in many private and public collections, such as the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.; the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Wittliff Collections at Texas State University.COURTNEY A. MCNEIL is Curator of Art at Telfair Museums in Savannah, Georgia.JOHN GRZYWACZ-GRAY is Professor Emeritus of Photography at Moorpark College in Moorpark, California.


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