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The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

TCF Ep. 338 - Dan Winters

The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

Ibarionex R. Perello

Cameras, Art, Photoshop, Visual Arts, Career, Interviews, Photographers, Arts, Photography, Photo, Digital

4.8749 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2016

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

After studying photography in Southern California, Dan Winters  finished his formal education at the film school of Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany. He began his career in photography as a photojournalist in his home town 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, photo illustrations, drawings and photojournalistic stories. Dan has won over one hundred national and international awards from American Photography, Communications Arts, The Society of Publication Designers, PDN, The Art Director's Club of New York, Life Magazine, and won the world press photo award in the portrait category, among others. He was also awarded the prestigious, Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for Magazine Photography. In 2003, he was honored by Kodak as a photo "Icon" in their biographical "Legends" series. He has had four exhibitions of his personal work in galleries In New York and Los Angeles and had a book of his magazine work entitled Dan Winters: Periodical Photographs published in 2009 by Aperture. In addition, he has photos in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian, the Houston Museum of Fine Art, the Harry Ransom Center in Austin and the Wittliff Collection at the Jepson Center for the ARts/Telfair Museum in Savannah, GA. He has published several books of his photography. His latest is The Grey Ghost: New York City Photographs.   Resources: Dan Winters The Grey Ghost: New York City Photographs Irving Penn Francis Bacon: Work on Paper }} Fahey Klein Gallery   Download the free Candid Frame app for your favorite smart device. Click here to download for . Click here to download Click here to download for Support the work we do at The Candid Frame with contributing to our Patreon effort.  You can do this by visiting or visiting the website and clicking on the Patreon button.

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This is Eighty Enax, and this is The Candid Frame.

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Over the past 10 years, I've had the honor and the pleasure to speak to some wonderful photographers,

0:59.6

many of whom I've had the opportunity to spend time with and even work with.

1:04.7

Spending time with people who inspire me on a regular basis is one of the greatest blessings I have in my life,

1:10.6

and I'm so happy

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that I can often share some of these conversations with you.

1:15.5

One of these people is certainly Dan Winters.

1:18.9

Dan is undoubtedly one of the world's best living photographers.

1:23.5

Many of his portraits and illustrations have not only become iconic, but they've also inspired

1:29.3

generations of photographers.

1:31.7

Unlike most photo books out there, his manages to always go up in value and are eagerly

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sought after by photographers and fans of photography.

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His latest book, The Grey Ghost, the New York City photographs, will no doubt meet with similar success.

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