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Winner of the 2012 Los Angeles Book Festival Photography/Art Book Award, Dan Winters’ *America: Icons and Ingenuity* is the first retrospective of this talented artist’s career. Winters has spent more than two decades creating memorable photographs for publications such as *The New York Times Magazine*, *Vanity Fair*, *GQ*, and *Rolling Stone*. Best known for his iconic celebrity portraits, Winters has photographed public figures ranging from the Dalai Lama to President Barack Obama, Hollywood celebrities from Leonardo DiCaprio to Helen Mirren, and artistic luminaries from Jeff Koons to William Christenberry. His portraiture style is instantly recognizable, characterized by impeccable lighting, muted backgrounds, and the contemplative postures of his subjects. Winters’ lifelong fascination with science, technology, and human ingenuity finds similar expression in significant groups of photographs: close-up studies of honeybees and airplanes, and a magnificent series devoted to the last three launches of NASA’s space shuttles. These photographs reveal an aspect of Winters’ career that is less familiar than his commercial work but equally compelling. In addition to the popular icons, *America* includes expressions of Winters’ personal vision. This lyrical body of work displays the same keen eye for lighting and composition, but with a decidedly more intimate atmosphere: photographs of his wife and son, minimalist cityscapes, and elegant collages. *America: Icons and Ingenuity* also includes a biographical essay that traces his development throughout a varied and productive career that is, in itself, a work in progress.
Winner of the 2012 Los Angeles Book Festival Photography/Art Book Award, Dan Winters’ *America: Icons and Ingenuity* is the first retrospective of this talented artist’s career. Winters has spent more than two decades creating memorable photographs for publications such as *The New York Times Magazine*, *Vanity Fair*, *GQ*, and *Rolling Stone*. Best known for his iconic celebrity portraits, Winters has photographed public figures ranging from the Dalai Lama to President Barack Obama, Hollywood celebrities from Leonardo DiCaprio to Helen Mirren, and artistic luminaries from Jeff Koons to William Christenberry. His portraiture style is instantly recognizable, characterized by impeccable lighting, muted backgrounds, and the contemplative postures of his subjects. Winters’ lifelong fascination with science, technology, and human ingenuity finds similar expression in significant groups of photographs: close-up studies of honeybees and airplanes, and a magnificent series devoted to the last three launches of NASA’s space shuttles. These photographs reveal an aspect of Winters’ career that is less familiar than his commercial work but equally compelling. In addition to the popular icons, *America* includes expressions of Winters’ personal vision. This lyrical body of work displays the same keen eye for lighting and composition, but with a decidedly more intimate atmosphere: photographs of his wife and son, minimalist cityscapes, and elegant collages. *America: Icons and Ingenuity* also includes a biographical essay that traces his development throughout a varied and productive career that is, in itself, a work in progress.