Dan Budnik
(1933 - )
North America, American
Dan Budnik studied painting at the Art Students’ League of New York from 1951–1953. He started photographing the New York school of Abstract Expressionist and Pop Artists in the mid-fifties and focused on artist portraits for several decades, producing photo-essays on artists such as Willem de Kooning and David Smith. Budnik became interested in documentary photography and the budding Civil Rights Movement through his teacher Charles Alston, the first African American to teach at the League. His photojournalism focuses on civil and human rights, ecological issues and artists. Budnik has received a National Endowment for the Arts Grant (1973); a Polaroid Foundation Grant (1980); and the Honor Roll Award of the American Society of Media Photographers (1998).
New York, United States
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