Annenberg Space for Photography (Venue Partner)
2000 Avenue of the Stars
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Dan Winters, Courtesy of the artist and the Annenberg Space for Photography
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Thursday Aug 13, 2009 (6:30pm)
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World renowned photographer Dan Winters will talk about his early influences and interest in film and photography on his path to becoming an editorial photographer. He will also discuss his first book, Dan Winters: Periodical Photographs, which was just released by Aperture. He will chronicle the process and journey in putting it together.
Dan began his career in photography as a photojournalist in his hometown in Ventura County, California. After winning several regional awards for his work, he moved to New York City, where magazine assignments came rapidly. Known for the broad range of subject matter he is able to interpret, he is widely recognized for his unusual celebrity portraiture, his scientific photography and his photojournalistic stories. Dan has won over one hundred national and international awards from American Photography, Communucation Arts, The Society of Publication Designers, PDN, The Art Directors Club of New York, and a 1st place World Press Photo Award in the portrait category, among others. He was also awarded the prestigious Alfred Eisenstadt Award for Magazine Photography. In 2003, he was honored by Kodak as a photo "Icon" in their biographical "Legends" series.
Dan has shot regular assignments for magazines such as Esquire, GQ, Vanity Fair, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Texas Monthly, Wired, Discover, Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone, Newsweek, Time, and many others. His clients for print, advertising and commercials include Nike, Microsoft, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sony, Bose, Saturn, Sega, Fila, Cobra, Warner Brothers, Paramount, Dreamworks, Columbia TriStar and Twentieth Century Fox. Regular music clients include RCA, A&M, Sony, Warner Brothers and Epitaph.
He has had three exhibitions of his personal work in galleries in NYC and LA and has photos in the permanent collection at the Houston Museum of Fine Art and the Harry Ransom Center in Austin.
Dan lives in Austin, Los Angeles and Savannah, Georgia with his wife and son.
Registration goes live July 23rd.
