User:Jaz60/Neal Slavin

NEAL SLAVIN (born in Brooklyn, NY, 1941) is the author of three books - PORTUGAL, published by Lustrum Press in 1971 the well-known documentary book of group portraits about America in the mid-seventies, WHEN TWO OR MORE ARE GATHERED TOGETHER published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1976 and BRITONS published by Andre Deutsch Ltd., London and Aperture Books, New York in 1986. His work has been seen in well known publications and magazines, among them - The Sunday London Times Magazine, Stern, Town and Country, Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, Life, House and Garden and Geo Magazine.

“BRITONS,” a major work which was commissioned by the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television in England was seen on exhibition at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York and at the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in April, 1986. The exhibition is currently on tour in both the United States and Europe.

Slavin is listed in various reference works including Who’s Who in American Art, The Photographers Guide, published by the New York Graphic Society, and Men of Achievement, published by the International Biographical Center in Cambridge, England.

Since 1988, Slavin has turned his attention to filmmaking, and making commercials for television. In 1994 he stopped his commercial work to devote all his time to developing, directing and producing a movie based on Arthur Miller’s only novel entitled FOCUS; about prejudice and race in America in the early 1940’s.

He is now working on a new photographic book entitled THE FACES OF AMERICAN PRAYER, a visual study of what Americans look like when engaged together in the act of prayer.