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American artist
Neil Winokur
Born 1945 Nationality American Education
Hunter College , 1967, degree in math and physics Known for Photographer
Neil Winokur (born 1945) is an American photographer based in New York City.
[1] Winokur's work is in the collections of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art , the
Museum of Modern Art , and the
Los Angeles County Museum of Art .
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Biography
Born and raised in New York City, Winokur attended Hunter College, graduating with a degree in math and physics in 1967. Winokur currently works in management at the
Strand Bookstore , where he has worked on and off for four-plus decades as a book purchaser.
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Artistic practice
In the early 1970s, Winokur began taking photos after borrowing a camera from a friend, initial experimenting in black and white urban scenes.
[1] In 1987, Winokur received a
Guggenheim Fellowship in the Creative Arts for his photography.
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Exhibitions
Public collections
Museum of Modern Art
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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References
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c Fisher, Meredith (March 2, 2016).
"Neil Winokur" . International Center of Photography .
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"Cindy Sherman: Totem | LACMA Collections" . collections.lacma.org . Retrieved June 23, 2019 .
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"Neil Winokur – Betsey Johnson" . metmuseum.org . Retrieved June 23, 2019 .
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"Neil Winokur | MoMA" . The Museum of Modern Art . Retrieved June 23, 2019 .
^ Leifheit, Matthew (January 23, 2014).
"MATTE: Neil Winokur" . Art F City .
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"Search Results – John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation" . October 5, 2012. Archived from
the original on October 5, 2012. Retrieved July 2, 2019 .
^ Smith, Joshua P; National Museum of American Art (U.S.) (1989).
The Photography of invention: American pictures of the 1980s, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
ISBN
9780262192804 .
OCLC
18628921 .
^ Galassi, Peter (1991).
Pleasures and terrors of domestic comfort: [exhibition, Museum of modern art, New York, September 26 – December 31, 1991 . New York: The Museum of modern art : Distrib. by Harry N. Abrams.
ISBN
9780870701924 .
OCLC
467709903 .