Road to Seeing

Hoboken, NJ: New Riders [an imprint of Peachpit, a division of Pearson Education], 2014. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good. Dan Winters (Photographs--unless otherwise noted).. The format is approximately 7.,5 inches by 9.5 inches by 2.375 inches. [12], Decorative covers. 663, [21] pages. No dust jacket present. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations (some in color--section at the end has information on the plates]. This is a large, heavy book and if sent outside of the United States would require additional shipping charges. Dan Winters (born October 21, 1962) is an American portrait photographer, illustrator, filmmaker and writer. He was born in California on October 21, 1962. He first studied photography and the darkroom process starting in 1971 as a member of his 4-H club. In 1979, while a high school senior, he worked full-time in the motion picture special effects industry in the area of miniature design. He went on to study photography at Moorpark College. In 1986, he began his career in photography as a photojournalist. He moved to New York City, where magazine assignments came rapidly. Known for the broad range of subject matter he is able to interpret, he is widely recognized for his iconic celebrity portraiture, his scientific photography, and his photojournalistic stories. He has created portraits of celebrities such as Bono, Neil Young, Barack Obama, the Dalai Lama, Stephen Hawking, Leonardo DiCaprio, Helen Mirren, Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Angelina Jolie, Sandra Bullock, Brad Pitt, Steven Spielberg. He has won over one hundred national and international awards from American Photography, Communication Arts, The Society of Publication Designers and Life, among others. In 1998, he was awarded the prestigious Alfred Eisenstadt Award for Magazine Photography. After beginning his career as a photojournalist for a daily newspaper in southern California, Dan Winters moved to New York to begin a celebrated career that has since led to more than one hundred awards, including the Alfred Eisenstadt Award for Magazine Photography. An immensely respected portrait photographer, Dan is well known for an impeccable use of light, color, and depth in his evocative images. In Road to Seeing, Dan shares his journey to becoming a photographer, as well as key moments in his career that have influenced and informed the decisions he has made and the path he has taken. Though this book appeals to the broader photography audience, it speaks primarily to the student of photography, whether enrolled in school or not, and addresses such topics as creating a visual language; the history of photography; the portfolio; street photography; personal projects; his portraiture work; and the need for key characteristics such as perseverance, awareness, curiosity, and reverence. By relaying both personal experiences and a kind of philosophy on photography, Road to Seeing tells the reader how one photographer carved a path for himself, and in so doing, helps equip the reader to forge his own.