DAN BUDNIK

1922-2020,

Budnik was an American photographer noted for his portraits of artists and photographs of the Civil Rights Movement and Native American life.

After being drafted, he started photographing the New York school of Abstracts Expressionist and Pop Artists in the mid-fifties, making it a primary focus for several decades. He made major photo-essays on Willem de Kooning and David Smith, among many other artists. It was his teacher Charles Alston at the Art Students’ League of New York, the first African American to teach at the League, who inspired his interest in documentary photography and the budding Civil Rights Movement. both series, of equal importance place this american photographer as one of the most significant photographers of our time.

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