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In The Grey Ghost: New York City Photographs, Dan Winters turns his
eye to New York City, collecting nearly 100 black-and-white images
he created there in the years after moving to New York from
California in 1987 at the age of 25. A highly personal collection,
The Grey Ghost reveals an artist finding his voice, discovering
"that elusive method that informs the manner in which we perceive
and interpret our surroundings." In these photographs--featuring
icons of New York City such as the Statue of Liberty and the Empire
State Building, as well as everyday moments captured on the
street--we find Winters presenting us with the seemingly ordinary
and commonplace in a way that captivates us and makes us look much
more closely. As Winters writes, New York "has acted as a proving
ground and a rite of passage for countless photographers,"
beginning with Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand. The majority of
the images in The Grey Ghost were created between 1987 and 1990,
but the book also includes images created as recently as 2016. For
those interested in street photography, New York City,
black-and-white imagery, or the earlier work of one of today's most
compelling photographers, The Grey Ghost is a must-have addition to
your photo book collection.
Honorable Mention, Los Angeles Book Festival Book Award,
Photography, 2013 Americans have been driven to explore beyond the
horizon ever since the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. In the
twentieth century, that drive took us to the moon and inspired
dreams of setting foot on other planets and voyaging among the
stars. The vehicle we built to launch those far journeys was the
space shuttle-Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and
Endeavour. This fleet of reusable spacecraft was designed to be our
taxi to earth orbit, where we would board spaceships heading for
strange new worlds. While the shuttle program never accomplished
that goal, its 135 missions sent more than 350 people on a
courageous journey into the unknown. Last Launch is a stunning
photographic tribute to America's space shuttle program. Dan
Winters was one of only a handful of photographers to whom NASA
gave close-range access to photograph the last launches of
Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour. Positioning automatically
controlled cameras at strategic points around the launch pad-some
as close as seven hundred feet-he recorded images of take-offs that
capture the incredible power and transcendent beauty of the blast
that sends the shuttle hurtling into space. Winters also takes us
on a visual tour of the shuttle as a marvel of technology-from the
crew spaces with their complex instrumentation, to the massive
engines that propelled the shuttle, to the enormous vehicle
assembly building where the shuttles were prepared for flight.
Acclaimed photographer Randal Ford celebrates our fascination with
and love of animals through his engaging portraits of the animal
kingdom. A young male lion cub seems to sport a rebellious mohawk;
a chimpanzee adopts a pensive pose; a curious duckling cocks his
head at the camera lens and flaps his wings. The featured animals
cover a wide range, from birds such as the African crane,
cockatoos, flamingos, and roosters, to big cats such as tigers,
cheetahs, and leopards, to Arabian horses, bulls, and Longhorn
sheep, among many others. Bird and animal lovers will be drawn to
the powerful and emotionally engaging images that seem to reveal
the individual character of the other animals that share the Earth
with us. Elegantly designed and packaged, this book will be the
perfect gift and addition to the home of any lover of animals or
fine photography.
A man forced to create hope where a vacancy lies, leading people to
work together to draw the stars until the real ones arrive ... It's
1982 in NYC when Dr. Todd Jensen finds out he positive for the gay
cancer after a routine exam. Having witnessed many of his other
friends perish and knowing that his time is limited he sets out on
a road trip to Arizona to make amends with his family. With him is
his best friend Jan who is fleeing New York for her own reasons and
together then begin to live in the present and see the sights of
America on their way to Tolleson, AZ where they have no idea what
kind of a homecoming they will be subjected too. When they arrive
everything has altered from his mentally disabled brother to the
parents he remembered who verbally abused him until the day he
escaped to the east coast. The town and his true love have landed
on harder times but with their new perspective and the start of
acceptance and trust, Todd begins to see that this small town may
hold the answer to his future what little time he may have left.
Winner of the 2012 Los Angeles Book Festival Photography/Art Book
Award, Dan Winters' America: Icons and Ingenuity is the first
retrospective 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' lifelong fascination with science, technology, and human
ingenuity finds similar expression in significant groups of
photographs: close-up studies of honeybees and airplanes and a
magnificent series devoted to the last three launches of NASA's
space shuttles. These photographs reveal an aspect of Winters'
career that is less familiar than his commercial work but equally
compelling. In addition to the popular icons, America includes
expressions of Winters' 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. America: Icons and
Ingenuity also includes a biographical essay that traces his
development in a varied and productive career that is, itself, a
work in progress.
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