Neal Slavin

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Neal Slavin (* 1941 in Brooklyn ) is an American photographer , director and film producer .

life and work

Neal Slavin graduated from Cooper Union in New York City with a bachelor's degree after receiving a 1961 scholarship to Lincoln College , England.

As a teacher, Slavin gave workshops and courses at Cooper Union, Manhattanville College, School of Visual Arts and Queens College, City University of New York . He was a visiting artist at the Art Institute of Chicago and Rencontres d'Arles .

photography

Slavin began taking pictures with a Contaflex , a two-lens reflex 35mm camera , during his studies .

As a scholarship holder of the Fulbright Program , Slavin stayed in Portugal in 1968, where he took black and white portraits of individuals, which he published in 1971 in the illustrated book Portugal .

Slavin has been photographing groups, organizations, clubs and societies in color since the 1970s , not for aesthetic reasons, but because more information is captured in the picture. He is particularly interested in the social interaction of group members during the photo opportunity. These group portraits were published in 1976 in the photo book When Two or More are Gathered Together . Several photos from this series were shown at documenta 6 in 1977 .

For the “The Britons” project, Slavin photographed in the UK with a 90 kg Polaroid 20 × 24 instant camera over a period of eight years .

Slavin has photographed for internationally published magazines such as The New York Times Magazine , Esquire , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Rolling Stone .

As a commercial photographer he worked for Apple , Chase Manhattan Bank , Oliver Peoples, Reebok and Warner Communications, among others .

Movie

Since 1988 Neal Slavin has directed several commercials for television advertising . The films were produced by his company Slavin Schaffer Films .

Neal Slavin is the director of the movie Focus with William H. Macy and Laura Dern in the lead roles. The film is based on a novel by Arthur Miller . Focus received the Political Film Society Award for Human Rights .

Publications

  • "Portugal," by Neal Slavin, edited by Ralph Gibson with an afterword by Mary McCarthy , Lustrum Press, 1971
  • When Two or More are Gathered Together, by Neal Slavin, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976, ISBN 978-0-37428-9-089
  • "The Britons" by Neal Slavin, Aperture 1986, ISBN 978-0-89381-2-089
  • Slavin is currently working on the book project and documentary "The Prayer Project"

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Museum of Contemporary Photography Slavin, Neal accessed on January 3, 2015 (English)
  2. Genealogy Exchange Slaven, Slavin, Slevin accessed on January 3, 2014 (English)
  3. Jordan G. Teicher You've Never Seen Group Portraits Like These , accessed on January 3, 2015.
  4. ^ Catalog for documenta 6: Volume 2: Photography, film and video; Kassel, page 146, 1977 ISBN 3-920453-00-X
  5. 20x24 studio Britons by Neal Slavin , accessed on January 3, 2015 (English).
  6. Cinema.com Focus: About The Filmmakers , accessed January 3, 2015.
  7. The Prayer Project ( Memento from January 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive )