Neil Winokur

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Neil Winokur
Born1945
NationalityAmerican
EducationHunter College, 1967, degree in math and physics
Known forPhotographer

Neil Winokur (born 1945) is an American photographer based in New York City.[1] Winokur's work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.[2][3][4]

Biography[edit]

Born and raised in New York City, Winokur attended Hunter College, graduating with a degree in math and physics in 1967. Winokur currently works in management at the Strand Bookstore, where he has worked on and off for four-plus decades as a book purchaser.[5][1]

Artistic practice[edit]

In the early 1970s, Winokur began taking photos after borrowing a camera from a friend, initial experimenting in black and white urban scenes.[1] In 1987, Winokur received a Guggenheim Fellowship in the Creative Arts for his photography.[6]

Exhibitions[edit]

Public collections[edit]

  • Museum of Modern Art[4]
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art[3]
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art[2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c Fisher, Meredith (March 2, 2016). "Neil Winokur". International Center of Photography.
  2. ^ a b "Cindy Sherman: Totem | LACMA Collections". collections.lacma.org. Retrieved June 23, 2019.
  3. ^ a b "Neil Winokur – Betsey Johnson". metmuseum.org. Retrieved June 23, 2019.
  4. ^ a b "Neil Winokur | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved June 23, 2019.
  5. ^ Leifheit, Matthew (January 23, 2014). "MATTE: Neil Winokur". Art F City.
  6. ^ "Search Results – John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". October 5, 2012. Archived from the original on October 5, 2012. Retrieved July 2, 2019.
  7. ^ Smith, Joshua P; National Museum of American Art (U.S.) (1989). The Photography of invention: American pictures of the 1980s, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. ISBN 9780262192804. OCLC 18628921.
  8. ^ Galassi, Peter (1991). Pleasures and terrors of domestic comfort: [exhibition, Museum of modern art, New York, September 26 – December 31, 1991. New York: The Museum of modern art : Distrib. by Harry N. Abrams. ISBN 9780870701924. OCLC 467709903.