User:Daward13/Dennis Manarchy

Biography

Dennis was raised in the Mid-west. His first love was jazz. As fate would have it, he came in late to band practice and the only instrument left was a sax, which he fell in love with. He developed a talent for improvisation and played in jazz bands throughout high school and college. His next love was photography, which ultimately became his passion. He won a scholarship to Rochester Institute of Technology and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. Upon graduation he was fortunate to serve an apprenticeship for the legendary photographer Irving Penn. It was a highly disciplined and uncompromising creative environment. Penn became simultaneously a mentor due to his amazing talent and meticulous nature, and a nemesis because it took years for Dennis to break from his influence and really develop his own style. Dennis was drafted into the army in 1968. After serving in Vietnam, he found himself anxious about returning to civilian life. He met a Lumbee Indian chief in a North Carolina bookstore, and after sharing his story, he was invited to move in with the tribe. He lived with them for 6 months to re-adjust. This was a pivotal experience and has manifested itself in his latest project, the “American Portrait”, focusing on America’s vanishing cultures. After leaving the tribe, he returned to the Midwest, opened a studio in Chicago and built an international clientele. Throughout his career, he has won numerous national and international awards for his work on campaigns from Porsche to Nike to Harley Davidson to Dior. His first book “En Passant” won the prestigious American Graphic Design award and his latest books, “Metal” and “Metal2” each won Graphis Gold in 2009 and 2010. He is consistently rated in the top 100 photographers of the world and was voted top photographer twice and top commercial director once. His first solo gallery show of images from his Metal series is currently on display at the Obsolete gallery in Venice, California through October. The American Portrait is his current work-in-progress, and certainly his most ambitious. This is a 4-year project that will coincide with the 200th anniversary of the camera. This is a 50 state tour of public exhibitions of portraits taken with his amazing new film camera, documentary films, and a book on America’s vanishing cultures. Career Awards 

Graphis Awards 2010 Graphis Design Annual Gold Award for METAL book 100 Best in Photography 2011 for METAL 2 CLIO Awards ADDY Awards Kelly Awards Caddy Awards Epica Awards Mobius Awards AdWeek Photographer of Year Museum Collections 

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) permanent collection Museum of Contemporary Photography permanent collection Professional Work 

Campaigns for The Gap, Nike, Harley-Davidson, Apple, Kodak, Panasonic Features in Vogue, Vanity Fair, Zoom, Photo, Life, and Time magazines Creative Work 

Dinner Roles, METAL, En Passant, Homeless (gallery exhibition), Nudes, Atchafalaya, Objet d’Art, White Trash, What Do You Think of Before Going to    Sleep? (gallery exhibition), Private Investigations, The Serpent and The    Flower Petals, Lips, Cadillac Tail Fins, The Greased Nude, The Paint Tube

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