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Dan Budnik

Dan Budnik (1933 - 2020) was active/lived in New York, Arizona.  Dan Budnik is known for Social issues and portrait photography.

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Dan Budnik (b.1933, Long Island, NY) studied painting at the Art Students’ League of New York.  After being drafted, he started photographing the New York school of Abstracts Expressionist and Pop Artists in the mid-fifties, making it a primary focus for several decades. He made major photo-essays on Willem de Kooning and David Smith, among many other artists.  It was his teacher Charles Alston at the Art Students’ League of New York, the first African American to teach at the League, who inspired his interest in documentary photography and the budding Civil Rights Movement.

In 1957 he started working at Magnum Photos, New York, assisting several photographers, notably Cornell Capa, Burt Glinn, Eve Arnold, Ernst Haas, Eric Hartmann and Elliott Erwitt.  In March 1958 Budnik travelled to live with the underground in Havana for 6 weeks during the Cuban revolution. Budnik continued to work with Magnum for half of his time, until joining as an associate member in 1963.   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2141 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Dan Budnik

   Dan Budnik  Born:  1933 - Long Island, New York
Died:   2020 - Tucson, Arizona
Known for:  Social issues and portrait photography

Dan Budnik (b.1933, Long Island, NY) studied painting at the Art Students’ League of New York.  After being drafted, he started photographing the New York school of Abstracts Expressionist and Pop Artists in the mid-fifties, making it a primary focus for several decades. He made major photo-essays on Willem de Kooning and David Smith, among many other artists.  It was his teacher Charles Alston at the Art Students’ League of New York, the first African American to teach at the League, who inspired his interest in documentary photography and the budding Civil Rights Movement.

In 1957 he started working at Magnum Photos, New York, assisting several photographers, notably Cornell Capa, Burt Glinn, Eve Arnold, Ernst Haas, Eric   ...  Displaying 750 of 2141 characters.

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