Ho ho ho! And no, we're not talking about Gianna's other profession. We're featuring some of our favorite picks for holiday gift giving, and first up is Gianna with books from photographer Dan Winters.
Last Launch: Discovery, Endeavour, Atlantis and Dan Winters’s America: Icons & Ingenuity by Dan Winters
You may not realize you it, but
you know Dan Winters’s work quite well. You’ve seen his photographs in dozens of
magazines, such as Discover, Rolling Stone, Audubon, Vanity Fair, Wired, and The New York Times Magazine.
He also has photographs in the
permanent collections at the National Portrait Gallery, Museum of Fine Art
Houston, and the very cool Harry Ransom Center here in Austin.
Winters has had a lifelong
obsession with technology and science, which is truly apparent in Last Launch: Discovery, Endeavour, Atlantis
(includes an introduction by by Al Reinert the co-screen writer of Apollo 13 and
a prologue by astronaut Mark Kelly). Winters was one of a handful of photographers
invited to shoot the last launches of these space shuttles, including some
rarely seen interiors. The book is as
gorgeous as it is moving. It's one of the
more fascinating photography books you’ll find this season. |
| Dan Winters |
University of Texas Press has
also just published Dan Winters’s America: Icons & Ingenuity. Included in
this collection are famous portraits of people like Christopher Walken, Heath
Ledger (one of my favorite photographs in this book), Morrissey, His
Holiness the Dalai Lama, and a truly iconic photo of Tupac Shakur from
1996. Also included are a few space
shuttle photos, cityscapes, collages, and one or two family shots.
I highly recommend both of these books, although Last Launch may
be the timelier for gift-giving this season.
Photos can be seen here http://danwintersphoto.com/ or on the
UT Press website here http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/books/winlas.html
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