Dan Weiner

Dan Weiner (1919–1959) was an American photojournalist, working largely for Fortune magazine. Weiner specialized in photographs of America at work.

Life and work

He was born in New York City. He studied painting at the Art Students League and the Pratt Institute, and eventually turned to photography, becoming a member of the Photo League.

Weiner served in the Army Air Forces during World War II, and became a professional photojournalist after the war who worked largely for Fortune magazine. He made street photographs of mid-20th-century New York City.^[1]

He died in a plane crash in Kentucky, aged 39.^[1] The plane, piloted by the subject of one of his stories, collided with the side of a mountain during a freak snowstorm.^{[citation needed]}

He was married to Sandra Weiner, whom he met through the Photo League as her teacher.^[2]

Publications

• Capa, Cornell, ed. (1968). The Concerned Photographer. New York: Grossman. With photographs by Weiner, Werner Bischof, André Kertész, Robert Capa, Leonard Freed, and David Seymour.
• Capa, Cornell, ed. (1974). Dan Weiner. ICP Library of Photographers, vol. 5. New York: Grossman. ISBN 0670256455; ISBN 0670256463.
• Ewing, William A. (1989). America Worked: The 1950s Photographs of Dan Weiner. New York: Harry N. Abrams. ISBN 0810911779.
• Paton, Alan (1956). South Africa in Transition. New York: Scribner. Photographs by Weiner.

Collections

Weiner's work is held in the following permanent collection:

• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: 15 prints (as of August 2020)^[3]

References