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Neil Winokur (born 1945) is an American photographer based in New York City. Winokur's work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.




Biography


Born and raised in New York City, Winokur attended Hunter College, graduating with a degree in math and physics in 1967. Winokur currently works in management at the Strand Bookstore, where he has worked on and off for four-plus decades as a book purchaser.




Artistic practice


In the early 1970s, Winokur began taking photos after borrowing a camera from a friend, initial experimenting in black and white urban scenes. In 1987, Winokur received a Guggenheim Fellowship in the Creative Arts for his photography.




Exhibitions


1989 - The Photography of Invention: American Pictures - National Museum of American Art
1991 – Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort - MoMA




Public collections


Museum of Modern Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art




References

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