Dan Winters: Periodical Photographs

With one foot in art history and the other firmly in his own time, Dan Winters has produced many of the most classic celebrity portraits of the past 15 years. Sometimes the poses are familiar from early Renaissance portraiture--the profile or three-quarter profile view of the subject beginning from the chest up, the eyes raised skyward, the background a murky monochrome. In other portraits, Winters conjures early photography, and in yet others, one finds entirely contemporary backdrops of freeways or industrial interiors. He excels in lighting, shrouding his subjects in shadow (Morrissey) or very slightly bleaching them (Kate Winslet) to produce a strange remoteness. Winters is responsible for the definitive portraits of Hollywood's most photographed A-listers (Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie, Denzel Washington, Nicole Kidman, Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio) and music superstars (Bono, Eminem, Willie Nelson), as well as scientists, architects, and everyday, extraordinary Americans.

This long-awaited first monograph from this top editorial photographer provides an overview of his assignment work as a contributor to some of America's most prestigious magazines, including New York Times Magazine, Esquire, GQ, and Rolling Stone, with an emphasis on his portraiture. Designed by Scott Dadich, award-winning Creative Director of "Wired" magazine, it showcases a photographer at the top of his game.

Commissioned Work

Dan Winters (b. 1962, Ventura County, California) is known for the broad range of subject matter he can interpret. His photographs have been published in Esquire, GQ, Vanity Fair, New York Times Magazine, New Yorker, Time, Texas Monthly, Wired, Fortune, Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone, Newsweek, and many other national and international publications. His previous books include Dan Winters: Periodical Photographs, Last Launch, and Road to Seeing. Winters has won over one hundred national and international awards from American Photography, Communication Arts, the Society of Publication Designers, PDN, the Art Directors Club of New York, and Life, among others, as well as the prestigious Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for Magazine Photography and a world press photo award in the arts category. In 2003, he was honored by Kodak as a photo Icon in their biographical Legends series, and his work is included in the collections at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Austin, Texas. Dan Winters lives in Austin and Los Angeles.