Background
Neal Slavin was born in 1941 in Brooklyn, New York, United States.
Photographer Television/film director
Neal Slavin was born in 1941 in Brooklyn, New York, United States.
Slavin earned a BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture in New York City in 1963. In conjunction with his studies there he received a special scholarship to Oxford University's Lincoln College in 1961 to study Renaissance painting and sculpture.
In 1980s - a freelance photographer in New York City, Slavin has taught photography at Cooper Union, Queens College, Manhattanville College and the School of Visual Arts (all in New York City) from 1970 to 1973. He was a graphic designer for Macmillan Publishing Corporation in New York City in 1965.
Slavin has won numerous awards: Art Directors Club of New York awards (1979, 1978); Mead Library of Ideas Award (1978); Communication Arts Magazine awards (1977, 1976); CAPS grant (1977); NEA grant through Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund to document Mexican-American culture in the United States (1977).
Slavin describes himself as "a documentarían who believes in doing whatever necessary in order to communicate to my viewer whatever is essential about the situation I am photographing. This often means posing, using artificial lights, formalism, etc., in any situation, so long as the idea of that situation will become clear and evident.” Working in both large and small formats, he is known for his photographs of groups of people.
PUBLICATIONS Monographs: When Two or More Are Gathered Together, 1976; Portugal, 1971. Anthologies: The Photograph Collector’s Guide, Lee D. Witkin & Barbara London, 1979; Photography Year, 1974.
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