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Exhibition chronicles 40 years of Neal Slavin's group portraits
Neal Slavin (born 1941 in Brooklyn, New York, United States) is an American photographer and television/film director.
Contents
- Exhibition chronicles 40 years of Neal Slavins group portraits
- Neal Slavin
- Overview
- Photography
- Books
- Television and film
- References
Neal Slavin
Overview
Slavin graduated from the Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture in New York, where he obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. He was awarded an exchange student scholarship at Lincoln College, Oxford in England.
Neal Slavin has received a number of grants and awards. 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.
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.
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.