Dan Winters’ Artistic Proving Ground: The Streets of New York
At age 25 in 1987, working as a staff photographer for a small daily newspaper in his native southern California, Dan Winters got some time-honored advice—head east.
At age 25 in 1987, working as a staff photographer for a small daily newspaper in his native southern California, Dan Winters got some time-honored advice—head east.
In 2011, when the end of NASA’s shuttle program was announced, photographer Dan Winters decided that he would photograph the final three launches and
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In 2011, when the end of NASA’s shuttle program was announced, photographer Dan Winters decided that he would photograph the final three launches and compile those images into a book.
Dan Winters, born October 21st 1962, is one of the world’s most creative & successful portrait photographers. Aside from being one of the artists that I admire the most working today, I am also lucky to call him a friend.
Peek inside photographer Dan Winters’ giant Texas studio.
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For the past 15 years, Dan Winters, the photojournalist and portrait artist has used a 110-year-old building near Austin as the engine room for his outsize creative drive
Link: Strobist: Dan Winters: Road to Seeing
I am at a loss for a quick way to describe Dan Winters’ just-shipped book, Road to Seeing. That’s because it defies nearly any category of photo book I have seen to date.
Link: A Last Look at Space Shuttles (5 Photos) | PDN Photo of the Day
Dan Winters offers an exclusive view on America’s space shuttles and space exploration through his most recent work, Last Launch, at the Fahey/Klein Gallery in Los Angeles
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I arrived at the location with a canvas army backpack filled with ice and a case of Coronas. To my relief, my new compatriots quickly confirmed that I had acted appropriately in the arena of refreshments, then Dan took one look at my vintage World War 2 backpack and told me the exact Allied campaign in which it had been utilized, as well as the year the Swiss switched over from canvas to leather shoulder straps. A crush began to blossom in the springtime of my heart. He said, “C’mon. You guys are gonna love this place.”
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Dan Winters, who grew up during the golden age—the Cronkite Age—of space reporting, is one of the photographers who has mastered the craft best. As the images that follow—taken from his new book, Last Launch—show, he has proven himself a virtuoso at his work. His pictures can practically singe your eyebrows and set you squinting with their brilliance, while at the same time capturing the black smoke and deep clouds that are often the counterpoint to the fires of liftoff
Dan Winters interview part 2. Part 1 is (here). Dan: I worked for Chris for exactly a year. When my year was coming up, and I said, ” two more months left.” And he’s like, “you’re really going to stop?” and I said, “yeah, I want to shoot.” The entire time
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You know, it’s funny, you either get this, or don’t really at all. You tell people you’re a photographer, and they say, “Oh, what kind of camera do you use?” It’s like asking Eddie Van Halen “What kind of guitar do you play?” or, “Yeah, I heard one of your records, man, you must have a killer guitar.” It’s not the camera, it’s the operator. But, with photography, as with a lot of things, the tools that you choose inform the aesthetic, to an extent. The 35mm looks different than 4×5, so the tools will vary, but the voice needs to be consistent. I started feeling like you get hired for your opinion. Wherever you come back with is your take on that experience.
Dan Winters is one of the most recognizable, awarded and sought-after editorial photographers in the world. I’ve worked with him a number of times, even visited his studio in Austin, but it wasn’t until I got the chance to interview him that I fully under
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Rob: And you loved that, you loved being in the action and shooting that style and all that?
Dan: Yep, I loved it. I loved shooting that way, and I still love that form. That was actually a really weird time for photojournalism, too. I always used to criticize the trend that existed then, so much stuff in the ’80s was shot with 300-millimeter lenses. I never shot that way. I didn’t like it. And they would do that insane, burning, I used to call it the “hand of God burning, ” where they’d burn everything down in the print except for like the face, try so hard to show you what to look at I’d go, “What’d you do, put a quarter on that guy’s face while you were making the exposure?”
Dan Winters spent 22 days in New York photographing dozens of New York power brokers, New York newsmakers of the past (wow, Frank Serpico looks nothing like Al Pacino, but Joey Buttafuoco has turned into John Belushi) , New York director Woody Allen, New York pride and joys like Deborah Harry, and 36 New York actors.
Every photographer is limited by certain constraints—the subject of a story, an art director’s vision, a client’s directives—so the images he produces are not truly his own. You might say, then, that his most genuine work, the work that best reveals the clarity of his eye, is that which he produces just for himself. In this spirit we approached longtime Texas Monthly contributor Dan Winters—a California native and Hill Country transplant whose portraits of marquee-name celebrities also appear in such publications as the New York Times Magazine, Esquire, and Rolling Stone—and gave him an assignment unlike the dozens of others he’s completed for us since his haunting photo of a Huntsville prisoner graced our cover in August 1991: We asked him to sift through a career’s worth of unpublished shots (last year he processed 250 rolls of film he’d accumulated over some twenty years) and select a few of his favorites. The ten assembled here, most of which Winters had not even printed until now, were all taken with a handheld camera, available light, and for no other reason than to capture the beauty of a particular moment. “Even when I’m doing a color assignment and it’s a big dog-and-pony show with a lot of lighting and a lot of crew members, I’ll just take people aside and do a little bit for myself,” he says. The results are as intimate as they are revealing. Jordan Breal
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