Jack Dykinga
Jack William Dykinga (born January 2, 1943 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American photographer and author of illustrated books .
Life
Jack Dykinga attended Riverside Brookfield Township High School and began his career in his hometown with the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times . He then went to Tucson , where he worked for the morning newspaper Arizona Daily Star and taught at the University of Arizona and Pima Community College .
Jack Dykinga is a founding member of the International League of Conservation Photographers , publishes with National Geographic Photography and serves on the board of the Sonoran Desert National Park Project .
Jack Dykinga lives in Tucson and has been married to Margaret Malley since 1965.
Publications
- in English
- together with Charles Bowden:
- Frog Mountain Blues . University of Arizona Press, Tucson 1987, ISBN 978-0-8165-0929-4
- The Sonoran Desert. Harry N. Abrams, New York 1992, ISBN 978-0-8109-3824-3
- The Secret Forest. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque 1993, ISBN 978-0-8263-1403-1
- Stone Canyons of the Colorado Plateau. Abrams, New York 1996, ISBN 978-0-8109-4468-8
- together with Julian D. Hayden, Charles Bowden and Bernard L. Fontana
- The Sierra Pinacate. University of Arizona Press, Tucson 1998, ISBN 978-0-8165-1777-0
- together with Janice Emily Bowers
- Desert: The Mojave and Death Valley. Harry N. Abrams, New York 1999, ISBN 978-0-8109-3238-8
- Large format nature photography. Amphoto Books, New York 2001, ISBN 978-0-8174-4157-9
- Jack Dykinga's Arizona. Westcliffe Publishers, Englewood 2004, ISBN 978-1-56579-499-3
- along with Charles Bowden and Wayne Ranney
- Images: Jack Dykinga's Grand Canyon. Arizona Highways, Phoenix 2008, ISBN 978-1932082876
- Capture the Magic: Train Your Eye, Improve Your Photographic Composition. (For example: Capturing the magic: Train your eye. Improve your photographic composition). Rocky Nook Publishers, Santa Barbara 2013, ISBN 978-1937538354
- in German translation by Volker Haxsen
- The art of landscape photography. A master class in photographic vision and composition . 182 pages. dpunkt.verlag , Heidelberg 2014 (1st edition). ISBN 978-3-86490-166-9
Awards
- 1971 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography
- 2010 Stone Canyon was named one of the 40 best nature photographs of all time by the International League of Conservation Photographers .
- 2011 NANPA Award (Prize of the North American Nature Photographers Society)
Web links
Commons : Jack Dykinga - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
- Literature by and about Jack Dykinga in the catalog of the German National Library
- Official website
- Biography at nationalgeographic.com
- Photos at thephotosociety.org
- 2001 Interview with Lew and Gail Steiger about Jack Dykinga's career
- Entries in Arthistoricum.net
Individual evidence
- ↑ Guardian: 40 greatest Nature Photographs . Retrieved May 9, 2014.
- ↑ NANPA Award ( Memento of the original from May 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dykinga, Jack |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dykinga, Jack W .; Dykinga, Jack William |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 2, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago , Illinois |