Neal Slavin

Neal Slavin (born 1941 in Brooklyn, New York, USA) is an American photographer and television/film director.[1][2]

Overview

Slavin graduated from the Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture[3] in New York, where he obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.[4] He was awarded an exchange student scholarship at Lincoln College, Oxford in England.

Neal Slavin has received a number of grants and awards.[4] He was one of the first Fulbright Fellows in Photography. He received US National Endowment for the Arts grants and a number of awards from Communication Arts Magazine. In 1986, he was named as the Corporate Photographer of the Year by the American Society of Magazine Photographers. He was also awarded the 1988 Augustus Saint-Gaudens Medal and the 2005 President's Citation by his alma mater, the Cooper Union.[3]

Slavin is listed in various reference works including Who's Who in American Art, The Photographers Guide, published by the New York Graphic Society, and Men of Achievement, published by the International Biographical Center in Cambridge, England.

Photography

Slavin's work has been seen in publications and magazines, including The Sunday Times magazine, Stern, Town & Country, Esquire, The New York Timesmagazine, Life, House & Garden, and Geo Magazine.

Neal Slavin's photographic works can be found in the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, USA.[5]

Books

Slavin is the author of several books:

Television and film

Since 1988, Slavin has undertaken film-making and commercials for television. In 1994, he ceased his commercial work to devote all his time to developing, directing and producing a film entitled Focus, based on Arthur Miller’s only novel, about prejudice and race in America in the early 1940s.[6][7][8]

See also

References

  1. "Bio and Press". Neal Slavin. Retrieved October 2, 2011.
  2. "Neal Slavin". Artnet. Retrieved October 2, 2011.
  3. 1 2 "Neal Slavin (A'63)". Alumni Hall of Fame January 2011 Featured, The Cooper Union Alumni Association. Cooper Union, New York, USA. Retrieved October 2, 2011. External link in |work= (help)
  4. 1 2 "Neal Slavin". Biographies and Reminiscences. Slaven Genealogy Exchange. Retrieved October 2, 2011. External link in |publisher=, |work= (help)
  5. "Neal Slavin (American, b. 1941)". Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, USA. Retrieved October 2, 2011.
  6. Neal Slavin at the Internet Movie Database.
  7. "Every Picture Tells a Story". Philadelphia Citypaper. November 1–8, 2001. Retrieved October 2, 2011.
  8. "Focus : About The Filmmakers". Culture.com. 2001. Retrieved October 2, 2011. External link in |publisher= (help)

External links

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