Famous Photographer Essay: Dave Black

By: Monisha Dhand

Dave Black is an American photographer and director. He was born on
October 17th, 1980 in Baltimore, Maryland. Blacks father was a physician and
a professor, and his mother was a nurse practitioner. They both worked at
Johns Hopkins University. Black was about eighteen when he first started to
take photography classes. In 1999 he moved to San Francisco to study
photography at the San Francisco Art Institute. Black worked with many
famous photographers, artists, and film makers such as Todd Hido, Larry
Sultan, George Kuchar and Henry Wessel Jr. Blacks career first started when
he first came to public attention in 2005. MTV looked at forty of his
photographs on the faade of their Time Square Building. The same year
Black started to work for Stop Smiling Magazine with editors J.C. Gabel and
James Hughes. He has worked with many musicians since that time such as
Daft Punk, Cat Power, Victoria Legrand, Kendrick Lamar, Mac Miller,
Weekend, Tamaryn, Giorgio Moroder, John Cale, Bobby Womack, Wes Lang,
James Blake, Best Coast, Peaking Lights, Richard Hell, Oneotrix Point Never,
and Nas. Some of Blacks photographs have also appeared in publications
like The New York Times, Interview, and Rolling Stone. Later on his career he
started to shoot for commercial clients and has photographed for large
companies such as Levis, Microsoft, Chase, Budweiser, Converse and others.
Hehas also created many images for Ryan Adams album, and was
responsible for the photography for Daft Punks Random Access Memories.
Black has been a photographer for more than thirty years , and has focused
more on the sports industry. He is one of the Nikons Legends Behind the
Lens, and is an instructor at many different workshops each year. Black
posts online tutorials to his website and is viewed by over 85,000 creative
visitors a month. In 2010 he came out with an acclaimed instructional book,
The Way I See It. Dave Black has accomplished many things throughout his
photograph career which makes him who he is today.

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