Dan Winters

Dan Winters (b. October 21, 1962) is an American photojournalist, illustrator, filmmaker and writer.

He was born in Ventura County, California on October 21, 1962. He first studied photography and the darkroom process starting in 1971 while a member of his local 4-H club. In 1979, while still a high school senior, he began working full time in the motion picture special effects industry in the area of miniature construction and design. He went on to study photography at Moorpark College, in California. After receiving an associates arts degree there, he entered the documentary studies program at Ludwig Maximillian University in Munich, Germany, focusing mainly on narrative photojournalism.^[1]

In 1986, he began his career in photography as a photojournalist in his home town in Ventura County, at the Thousand Oaks News Chronicle. After winning several local awards for his work, he moved to New York City, where magazine assignments came rapidly. In 1991, he moved to Los Angeles and married Kathryn Fouts, who became his photo rep and studio manager. In 1993, his son Dylan was born in Los Angeles. In 2000, while maintaining a home in LA, he moved to Austin, Texas. There he set up a studio outside Austin in a historic building built in 1903, that had originally served as a general store, gas station and post office for nearly 100 years before he arrived.

Known for the broad range of subject matter he is able to interpret, he is widely recognized for his iconic celebrity portraiture, his scientific photography, his photojournalistic stories and more recently his drawings and illustrations. He has created portraits of luminaries such as Bono, Neil Young, Barack Obama, Tupac Shakur, the Dalai Lama, Stephen Hawking, Leo DiCaprio, Helen Mirren, Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Angelina Jolie, Sandra Bullock, Brad Pitt, Steven Spielberg and Al Gore.

He has won over one hundred national and international awards from American Photography, Communication Arts, The Society of Publication Designers, Photo District News, The Art Directors Club of New York and Life, among others. In 1998, he was awarded the prestigious Alfred Eisenstadt Award for Magazine Photography. In 2003, he won a 1st place World Press Photo Award in the portrait category. In 2003, he was also honored by Kodak as a photo “Icon” in their biographical “Legends” series.

In addition to regular assignments for magazines such as Esquire, GQ, Vanity Fair, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, New York, Texas Monthly,^[2] Wired, Fortune, Discover, Audubon Magazine, Details, Premiere, W, Entertainment Weekly,^[3] Rolling Stone, Life, Newsweek, Time, Vibe and many other national and international publications, his clients for print and advertising include Nike, Microsoft, IBM, LG, Hewlett-Packard, Sony, Bose, Saturn, Sega, Fila, Cobra, ABC, Warner Brothers, Paramount, Dreamworks, Columbia TriStar and Twentieth Century Fox. Regular music clients include RCA, A&M, Sony BMG, Interscope, Warner Bros., Elektra Records and Epitaph.

His work has appeared in four solo exhibitions in galleries in New York and Los Angeles. A book of his work entitled "Dan Winters: Periodical Photographs" was published in 2009 by Aperture.^[4][5] In addition, he has photos in permanent collections of the National Portrait Gallery (United States), the Museum of Fine Art Houston and the Harry Ransom Center for Photography in Austin, Texas.^[6]

He currently lives in Austin, Los Angeles and Savannah, Georgia with his wife and son.

References

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1. ^ O'Neill, Claire. "Dan Winters: Periodical Photographs". NPR. http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2009/05/dan_winters_periodical_photogr.html. Retrieved 2010-08-30. 
2. ^ Breal, Jordan (January, 2008). "The Unpublished Dan Winters". Texas Monthly. http://www.texasmonthly.com/2008-01-01/feature4.php. Retrieved 2010-08-30. 
3. ^ http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,254199,00.html
4. ^ Dan Winters:Periodical Photographs, Aperture, 2009 ISBN 978-1-59711-092-1
5. ^ "PERIODICAL PHOTOGRAPHS: DAN WINTERS". Express.co.uk. http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/105890/Periodical-Photographs-Dan-Winters. 
6. ^ "Unvarnished Glossies" Photography Profile, The Austin American-Statesman, June 4, 2009
7. ^ http://www.ppmag.com/articles/19/The-Meaning-of-Light-The-tale-of-Dan-Winters-soaring-career-and-singular-body-of-work-and-his-return-to-simplicity-in-portraiture.php
8. ^ http://www.pdngallery.com/global/en/professional/features/legendsV7Q1/winters.jhtml
9. ^ http://danwintersphoto.com/

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Name	Winters, Dan
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Date of birth	October 21, 1962
Place of birth	Oxnard, California
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