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Neil Winokur | Dogs, Portraits & Objects

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Channel: Strand Book Store · 2018 · Entertainment

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New York native photographer and long-time friend of the Strand Neil Winokur launches his new monograph, “Dogs, Portraits and Objects.” Nancy Bass Wyden and Matt Leifheit talk to him about his work. Buy a copy of Dogs, Portraits and Objects here: https://www.strandbooks.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=search.results&includeOutOfStock=1&searchString=neil+winokur+dogs+portraits+objects

“Dogs, Portraits and Objects,” a three-volume collection of Winokur’s work, is a series of bold, striking and intimate studies of both the ordinary and extraordinary beings and objects that have defined New York City for decades.

Born in New York, New York, in 1945, Neil Winokur received a BA from Hunter College of the City University of New York in 1967. His work has been exhibited widely since 1982, when it was prominently included in the important book, Lichtbildnisse: Das Portrat in der Fotografie, from the Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, Germany. Other important exhibitions include The Museum of Modern Art's Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort, from 1991; The Photography of Invention, The National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 1989; Likeness: Portraits of Artists by Other Artists. ICA, Boston, 2005. His most recent publication is A-Z, a portfolio of twenty-six Cibachrome prints. Winokur's photographs are included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Denver Art Museum; The Philadelphia Museum of Art; and others.

Recorded November 13, 2018

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