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Dan Budnik Art

American, b. 1933
Dan Budnik (Long Island NY, 1933 – Tucson AZ, 2020) 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. In 1964 he left Magnum and continued specializing in essays for leading national and international magazines, focussing on civil and human rights, ecological issues and artists. Since 1970 Budnik has worked with the Hopi and Navaho traditional people of northern Arizona, and received for this work a National Endowment for the Arts Grant in 1973 and a Polaroid Foundation Grant in 1980. In 1998 he was the recipient of the Honor Roll Award of the American Society of Media Photographers.
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Artist: Dan Budnik
David Smith with Voltri XV - Bolton 1963 by Dan Budnik
By Dan Budnik
Located in Phoenix, AZ
SHIPPING CHARGES INCLUDE SHIPPING, PACKAGING & **INSURANCE** 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...
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1960s American Modern Dan Budnik Art

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Photographic Paper

Selma to Montgomery March. Coretta Scott King and Martin Luther King Jr., Munici
By Dan Budnik
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed, titled & dated in pencil on verso; Signed in ink on recto
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1960s Dan Budnik Art

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ABS, Silver Gelatin

Georgia O'Keeffe, Profile, Ghost Ranch, New Mexico
By Dan Budnik
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Born in Long Island, Budnik 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 completed major photo-essays on Willem de Kooning and David Smith, among many other artists. It was his teacher Charles Alston...
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1970s Dan Budnik Art

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Silver Gelatin

William DeKooning, 831 Broadway Studio, New York
By Dan Budnik
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Born in Long Island, Budnik 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 completed major photo-essays on Willem de Kooning and David Smith, among many other artists. It was his teacher Charles Alston...
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1960s Dan Budnik Art

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Silver Gelatin

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