Dan Weiner
Dan Weiner (1919–1959) was an American photojournalist, working largely for Fortune magazine. Weiner specialized in photographs of America at work.
Life and work[edit]
He was born in New York City. He studied painting at the Art Students League and the Pratt Institute, and eventually turned to photography, becoming a member of the Photo League.
Weiner served in the Army Air Forces during World War II, and became a professional photojournalist after the war, working largely for Fortune magazine. He made street photographs of mid-20th-century New York City.[1]
He died in a plane crash in Kentucky, aged 39.[1] The plane, piloted by the subject of one of his stories, collided with the side of a mountain during a freak snowstorm.[citation needed]
He was married to Sandra Weiner, who he met through the Photo League as her teacher.[2]
Publications[edit]
- Capa, Cornell, ed. (1968). The Concerned Photographer. New York: Grossman. With photographs by Weiner, Werner Bischof, André Kertész, Robert Capa, Leonard Freed, and David Seymour.
- Capa, Cornell, ed. (1974). Dan Weiner. ICP Library of Photographers, vol. 5. New York: Grossman. ISBN 0670256455; ISBN 0670256463.
- Ewing, William A. (1989). America Worked: The 1950s Photographs of Dan Weiner. New York: Harry N. Abrams. ISBN 0810911779.
- Paton, Alan (1956). South Africa in Transition. New York: Scribner. Photographs by Weiner.
Collections[edit]
Weiner's work is held in the following permanent collection:
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: 15 prints (as of August 2020)[3]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Gonzalez, David (2 August 2018). "The Radical Empathy of Dan Weiner". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-08-21 – via NYTimes.com.
- ^ "Contemporary Photographer". 1967.
- ^ "Search the Collection". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 2020-08-21.
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- 1919 births
- 1959 deaths
- Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in the United States
- American photojournalists
- Pratt Institute alumni
- Art Students League of New York alumni
- Journalists from New York City
- Accidental deaths in Kentucky
- 20th-century American photographers
- 20th-century American journalists
- American male journalists
- United States Army Air Forces personnel of World War II
- Street photographers