Dan Winters's America: Icons and Ingenuity - Hardcover

McNeil, Courtney A.; Grzywacz-Gray, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0933075197 ISBN 13: 9780933075191

Publisher: University of Texas Press, 2012

Synopsis

Published by the Telfair Museums of Savannah, Georgia, to coincide with a major exhibition, Dan Winters’s America is the first museum survey 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’s lifelong fascination with science, technology, and human ingenuity finds similar expression in significant groups of photographs: close-up studies of honeybees and of airplanes and a magnificent series devoted to the last three launches of NASA’s space shuttles. These photographs reveal an aspect of Winters’s career that is less familiar than his commercial work but equally compelling.

In addition to the popular icons, Dan Winters’s America includes expressions of his 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.

About this title

About the Author:

Known for the broad range of subject matter he is able to interpret, Dan Winters has had his photographs published in Esquire, GQ, Vanity Fair, the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, Time, Texas Monthly, Wired, Fortune, Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone, Newsweek, and many other national and international publications. Aperture published a book of his magazine work titled Dan Winters: Periodical Photographs. Winters has won over one hundred national and international awards from American Photography, Communication Arts, the Society of Publication Designers, PDN, the Art Directors Club of New York, and Life, among others, as well as the prestigious Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for Magazine Photography and a world press photo award in the arts category. In 2003, he was honored by Kodak as a photo “Icon” in their biographical “Legends” series.

Review:

"...[Dan Winters's America] has lavish production values, printed on heavyweight paper with a matte finnish. It's gorgeous...More than any other book, DWA is a walk through the mind of the photographer. I love the breadth of work it contains. The museum did a wonderful job of curating the images and this lavish book is the next best thing to being there." Strobist.Blogspot.co.uk, November 15th 2012

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0933075197
• ISBN 13: 9780933075191
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 176