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Dan Budnik
David Smith with Voltri XV - Bolton 1963 by Dan Budnik

1963

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DAN BUDNIK (American, b. 1933-2020 David Smith with Voltr1-Bolton XV, Terminal Iron Works, Bolton Landing, N. Y. 1963 Vintage Print on Afga Paper, Silver gelatin, March 1963, printed 1992 by Igor Bakht Paper: 24 x 20 inches Image: 16.38 x 13 inches Recto: signed in black ink in artist's hand Verso: titled, dated, signed in graphite in artist's hand, printer information in graphite State: unmounted. Dan Budnik 1933-2020 As a photojournalist, Dan Budnik is known for his photographs of artists, but also for his photo-documentation of the Civil Rights Movement and of Native Americans. Born in 1933 in Long Island, New York, Budnik studied with Charles Alston at the Art Students League of New York (1951-53) and began his photography career as Philippe Halsman’s assistant. Working at Magnum Photos (1957-64) in 1963, Budnik persuaded Life Magazine to have him create a long-term photo essay showing the seriousness of the Civil Rights Movement, documenting the Selma to Montgomery march and other historical Civil Rights moments. Budnik went on to photograph for premier publications such as Life, Fortune, Look, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated and Vogue. He has been a major contributor to eight Time-Life Wilderness and Great Cities series and received a 1973 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for his work on the Hudson River Ecology Project and a 1980 grant from the Polaroid Foundation for Big Mountain: Hopi-Navajo Forced Relocation. Biography Pastaza, Ecuador, December 2004 Photo by Kresta King Cuther Pastaza, Ecuador, December 2004 Photo by Kresta King Cuther Dan Budnik, (b. 1933-died 2020), whose career as a photographer has spanned more than half a century, was most recent recipient, in 1998, of the prestigious American Society of Media Photographers Honor Roll Award, an accolade previously accorded to such eminent photographers as Man Ray, Edward Steichen, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, André Kertész, Ernst Hass, and Henri Cartier-Bresson. After studying with Charles Alston at the Art Students League of New York (1951-53), Budnik began his career as a Magnum photographer. His photo-essays have appeared in periodicals that include Art in America, LIFE Magazine, Fortune, The London Sunday Times, Magazine, Look, Modern Photography, Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine, Réalités and Vogue. He has been a major contributor to many books, including six from the Time-Life Wilderness and Great Cities series. Budnik’s photographs appear in “The Museum: An Informal Introduction to The Museum of Modern Art” by Richard Schickel (1970). He is included in two seminal histories of photography: Nathan Lyons’ “Photography in the Twentieth Century” (1967) and “The Picture History of Photography from the Earliest Beginnings to the Present Day”, by Peter Pollack (1977). Dan Budnik lives in Tucson, Arizona and is currently involved with creating a photographic record of ancient petroglyphs. Widely acclaimed for his photo-documentation of Native Americans (including his collaboration with Sandy Johnson on “The Book of Elders: The Life Stories of Great American Indians”, 1994), the Civil Rights Movement, and environmental issues. Budnik received a 1973 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for his work on the Hudson River Ecology project and a 1980 grant from the Polaroid Foundation for Big Mountain: Hopi-Navajo Forced Relocation. The scope of Dan Budnik’s documentation of major 20th century artists has yet to be fully recognized. In addition to David Smith, he photographed Georgia O’Keeffe, Lee Bontecou, Alexander Calder, John Chamberlain, Willem de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Motherwell, Mark Rothko, and many others. Dan Budnik’s photographs of David Smith first appeared as an April 5, 1963 photo essay for LIFE Magazine. They were first exhibited, in 1974, at the University Art Museum State University of New York, Albany, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, and Rice University, Houston, Texas. The same exhibition circulated nationally under the auspices of the American Federation of Arts, from 1975-78. They have been widely published, and have become an essential part of the extensive body of literature on Smith. Twenty-four of Budnik’s photographs of Smith are reproduced in the catalogue of the current exhibition at The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, David Smith: A Centennial. Selected Public Collections Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York The Albuquerque Museum, New Mexico Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, Tucson The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas The Museum of Modern Art, New York Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin Roswell Museum and Art Center, New Mexico Seattle Art Museum, Washington Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
  • Creator:
    Dan Budnik (1933, American)
  • Creation Year:
    1963
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 19.38 in (49.23 cm)Width: 13 in (33.02 cm)
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  • Condition:
    DAN BUDNIK (American, b. 1933-2020 David Smith with Voltr1-Bolton XV, Terminal Iron Works, Bolton Landing, N. Y. 1963 Vintage Print on Agfa Paper, Silver gelatin, March 1963, printed 1992 by Igor Bakht Paper: 24 x 20 inches Image: 16.38 x 13 inches.
  • Gallery Location:
    Phoenix, AZ
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU2623212945372

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