Neil Winokur

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Neil Winokur
Born1945
New York City
NationalityAmerican
Education Hunter College, 1967, degree in math and physics
Known forPhotographer

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. [2] [3] [4]

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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. [5] [1]

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. [6]

Exhibitions

Public collections

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References

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  2. 1 2 "Cindy Sherman: Totem | LACMA Collections". collections.lacma.org. Retrieved June 23, 2019.
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  6. "Search Results – John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". October 5, 2012. Archived from the original on October 5, 2012. Retrieved July 2, 2019.
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  8. 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.