Bill Binzen

{{Short description|American photojournalist (1936–2020)}} {{Infobox artist| honorific_prefix = | name = Bill Binzen | honorific_suffix = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image = | imagesize = | alt = Bill Binzen | caption =

| birth_name = Frederick William Binzen Jr. | birth_date = {{Birth date|1918|09|21}} | birth_place = Montclair, New Jersey, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|2010|11|01|1918|09|21}} | death_place = Salisbury, Connecticut, U.S. | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates =  | nationality = | spouse = | known_for = | occupation = Photographer, author, art director | training =Art Students League of New York | alma_mater = | movement = | works = | patrons = | awards = | memorials = | elected = | website = | module = }} '''Bill Binzen''' (September 21, 1918 – November 1, 2010) was an American photographer who began his freelance career after a decade of work as art director for a New York advertising agency. Examples of his work could be found in the popular Life Library of Photography series and one his composite photos, known as "Winter Climber", became widely known after appearing first in the Time-Life book called ''Color'' and later in popular magazines and trade books. Binzen also wrote and photo-illustrated children's books.

In the early 1950s, after completing a year of study at the Art Students League, he joined the Ogilvy, Benson & Mather advertising agency. As its art director, he helped the agency impart an aura of prestige to products such as men's shirts, tonic water, and vacations in Puerto Rico. His writing and freelance careers commenced after his departure from Ogilvy in 1962. One of his earliest books, ''Miguel's Mountain'', received frequent journal citations over a period of 18 years following its publication in 1968, and one of the last books he produced, called ''Alfred the Little Bear'', spawned a popular series.

Binzen was born in Montclair, New Jersey to a close-knit family that included his parents and two brothers. His father was an executive with the J. C. Penney Company. After graduating from a private boarding school in Connecticut, he worked as a page for the National Broadcasting Company and sometimes served as a tour guide in Radio City Music Hall. After the United States entered World War II, he joined the Army Air Corps and, after 16 months in training, served as co-pilot of a B-17 bomber, flying missions from Italy into Central Europe during the last years of the war. He was living in Salisbury, Connecticut when he died in 2010.

==Early life==

Raised in Montclair, New Jersey, he attended Choate, a private boarding school in Connecticut. On graduating, he spent a year at the University of Virginia, leaving after a year to travel and study art at the University of Arizona.<ref name="Hartford Courant Nov 2010"/> After World War II service as a bomber pilot, he took classes at the Art Students League.

==Career as an advertising executive== thumb|Bill Binzen, New Yorker ad for Hathaway Shirts, 1951 thumb|Bill Binzen, Puerto Rican rum campaign ad, 1955 thumb|Bill Binzen, Cryan Shames Album Cover, 1968 thumb|Bill Binzen, Winter Climber (composite photo), 1969 thumb|Bill Binzen, East Anglian House, 1970 thumb|Bill Binzen, image from ''Family of Woman'' (1969, Grosset and Dunlap) thumb|Bill Binzen, Broom Leaning on Painted Wall, 1981 thumb|Bill Binzen, Trash Can in Front of Painted Wall, 1981

On leaving the Art Students League, Binzen joined the Foote, Cone & Belding advertising agency and in January 1951 became art director of the Ogilvy, Benson & Mather agency. <ref name="Television Digest Jan 1951"/> Later that year, Ogilvy acquired the account for the Hathaway textile firm and began to promote its inexpensive men's shirts as luxury products. The ads Binzen produced showed a distinguished man with a black eye patch, and the campaign came to be known as "the man in the Hathaway shirt". One source says that sales skyrocketed and another says that the ad made the small Hathaway firm instantly famous.<ref name="5 Giants of Advertising 2001"/><ref name="Hathaway Campaign"/>

In 1998, at the urging of his son Nathaniel, Binzen wrote an account of his work at Ogilvy. At the outset of an ad campaign, he wrote, the art director and a copywriter would collaborate on rough outlines of the project and together they would block out ads. Then, after discussions with an account manager, they would prepare a mockup to submit for the client's approval.<ref name="Ad Campaign Work"/>

In 1950 Ogilvy began promoting the British soft drinks firm Schweppes, again presenting its products as high-class and having exceptional value.<ref name="Advertiser's Weekly Jun 1950"/> A year later the agency produced its first Schweppes ad featuring the suave and cosmopolitan head of Schweppes' American operations, Commander Edward Whitehead, in a successful effort to give snob appeal to Schweppes tonic water.<ref name="Chicago Tribune Jul 1999"/> Late in his career, Binzen said this campaign was one of his favorites.<ref name="Schweppes Campaign"/>

In 1955 Puerto Rico's Economic Development Administration hired Ogilvy to help change the public image of the commonwealth from poverty-stricken backwater to desirable vacation destination. This, Binzen's biggest campaign, was the one of which he was most proud.<ref name="Puerto Rico Campaign"/> He won an award for an ad in this project that showed the commonwealth as a classy destination.<ref name="Art Direction Jun 1956"/> He also produced an ad showing a dog making a studio portrait of his owner (and "best friend") to promote a Puerto Rican rum.<ref name="Art Direction Nov 1955"/><ref name="Ogilvy on Advertising 1985"/> One of the last campaigns that Binzen worked on aimed to increase the appeal of an elite product, the Bentley automobile, by describing it as "the only car in the world as good as a Rolls Royce".<ref name="Advertising Age Nov 1961"/>

==Career as a freelance photographer==

In 1955, while still working as art director for Ogilvy, Binzen submitted to ''Life'' magazine some photos he had made by sticking cutout figures on window panes. Using a technique called forced perspective, the images created the illusion that the figures were performing whimsical and entirely unlikely tricks such as jumping from the roof of a building, diving into the icy Hudson River, or dangling from the pull of a window blind.<ref name="Rendering from the Schweppes Campaign"/> The two-page spread that ''Life'' published carried the title "Windows on a World; Camera Inside Sees Odd Antics Outside".<ref name="Life Apr 1955"/> During this period Binzen published photos in a variety of popular magazines, including Town and Country, Harper's, Theater Arts, and Esquire.<ref name="Art Direction Jun 1956"/><ref name="Lakeville Journal Jan 2012"/>

In 1962 Binzen left Ogilvy to work full time as a professional photographer.<ref name="Hartford Courant Nov 2010"/> In 1970 a book called simply ''Color''—one in a series of 17 published by Time-Life as the ''Life Library of Photography''—contained seven photos that Binzen had taken during the previous few years. The images were used in sections discussing topics such as "Colors of Time and Place" and "Shooting Color Early or Late, Rain or Shine". In one section, called "Fantasy from Sandwiching", the book showed a composite photo that would become one of Binzen's best-known works.<ref name="Color 1970"/> Produced in 1969 and called "Winter Climber", it seemed to show a man walking up the side of a skyscraper toward a snow-swept hillside. To make the photo, he sandwiched two transparencies, one of them showing a man trudging uphill in northwestern Connecticut on a misty winter day and the other a photo of the General Motors Building in New York City.<ref name="Color 1970"/> Two years later, the photo appeared again in a feature article in Horizon magazine.<ref name="Horizon 1972"/> In 1972, when Binzen published a book devoted to his sandwiching technique (''Doubletake'', Grossman Publishers), it had the image as its cover photo.<ref name="Doubletake Richardson"/> It appeared a fourth time on the cover of Harper's Magazine<ref name="Harpers Mar 1980"/> and a fifth time on the cover of a book that was an expanded version of the Harper's article (''Scenes from Corporate Life'' by Earl Shorris, 1984, Penguin Books).<ref name="Scenes from Corporate Life 1984"/>

Binzen's work was included in three other books in the Time-Life series. One, called ''Photographing Children'' (1971), contained five of his photos dating from 1960 to 1964 in sections called "Baby Pictures" and "Doing What Comes Naturally".<ref name="Photographing Children 1971"/> The second, called ''Special Problems'' (1971), contained a 1967 Binzen photo under the heading "Sacrificing Detail to Create a Mood".<ref name="Special Problems 1971"/> The third, ''Travel Photography'' printed a 1970 photo under the heading "The Traveler's Eye" showed a crazily tilted East pair of East Anglian houses.<ref name="Travel Photography 1972"/>

As the photos Time-Life accepted for its book on children suggest, Binzen was particularly adept and became widely known for his skill in photographing children.<ref name="Hartford Courant Nov 2010"/> Between 1963 and 1976 he published ten children's books containing his photos along with his text. He also published a book, his first, that contained his drawings and text.<ref name="Lakeville Journal Jan 2012"/> In 1971 he took photos to accompany two children's books in which he was named as co-author. In the first, ''All in a Summer's Day'' (Pantheon Books), his photos appeared with poems by William Wise.<ref name="All on a Summer's Day 1971"/> In the second, ''The Park in the City'' (Dutton), his photos accompanied text by Philip Ressner exploring the pleasures of parks in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Staten Island.<ref name="Park in the City 1971"/> In 1973 the Christmas issue of ''Time'' magazine had a Binzen photo of a wishful young child on its cover.<ref name="Time Dec 1973"/>

Binzen was the sole author of three books for adults. In 1968 he published a book of photos taken on a street in Manhattan that stretches from the banks of the Hudson River in Greenwich Village all the way to the banks of the East River in the East Village. The book, ''Tenth Street'' (Grossman Publishers, New York), contains 95 pages of images and very little text, altogether showing what one reviewer called a "formidable cross-section of humanity". The reviewer added, "Binzen really involves us in this congested, noisy human confusion... This is not a pretty book, but it has a rare vitality and conviction."<ref name="San Francisco Examiner Dec 1968"/> One of Binzen's photos of 10th Street appeared in the Time-Life book called ''Color'' in the section on "Shooting Color Early or Late". The accompanying description said Binzen had taken it early one morning from a window in his apartment to convey a "sense of silence, of waiting for the day's work to begin.".<ref name="Color 1970"/>{{rp|84}} Another 10th Street photo appeared on the cover of a book by Susan Neunzig Cahill called ''The Urban Reader'' (1971, Prentice-Hall).<ref name="Urban Reader 1971"/>

Binzen's ''Doubletake'' (Grossman Publishers) appeared in 1972. It was a small-format book containing mostly sandwiched images with a minimal amount of text.<ref name="Courtland Standard Mar 1972"/> One of its reviewers noted, "All of the photos in the book are a little odd, and you are likely to do a double take on first viewing them."<ref name="Doubletake Richardson"/> By 1986 Binzen had moved from Manhattan to a small town in the northwest corner of Connecticut and in that year he published his third book for adults, a book of 90 color plates celebrating that region of the country. Entitled ''The Berkshires'' (Skyline Press), it used photos taken for the most part within 30 miles of his home to show what he called "the flow of the seasons".<ref name="Berkshires 1986"/><ref name="Berkshire Eagle Sep 1986"/>

Other books for adults that include his photography include ''The Family of Woman'' (by Jerry Mason, Grosset & Dunlap),<ref name="Family of Woman 1979"/> ''After the First Death'' (by Robert Cormier, Pantheon Books, 1979),<ref name="After the First Death 1979"/> ''More Joy of Photography'' (by Keith A. Boas, Addison-Wesley and Eastman Kodak, 1981),<ref name="More Joy of Photography 1981"/> the ''Kodak Pocket Guide to 35mm Photography'' (Eastman Kodak, 1981),<ref name="Pocket Guide 1981"/> and ''Fragmenting Family'' (by Brenda Oxford Almond, Clenendon Press, 2006).<ref name="Fragmenting Family 2006"/>

Between 1968 and 1991 Binzen made cover photos for 11 music sound recordings. The first two appeared on vinyl LPs produced by Columbia Records: (1) a trio led by Dave Brubeck on piano with Gerry Mulligan on baritone saxophone<ref name="Brubeck Trio 1968"/> and (2) ''Synthesis'' by The Cryan' Shames, a psychedelic rock album featuring guitarist Isaac Guillory.<ref name="Cryan Shames 1968"/> Binzen's other cover photos appeared on: ''Naniwa Express'' (1974, Sony),<ref name="Naniwa Express 1974"/> ''Rock of Ages'' by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir (1975, Columbia),<ref name="Tabernacle Choir 1975"/> ''The Restful Mind'' by Larry Coryell (1975, Vanguard),<ref name="Larry Coryell 1975" /> ''Late Choral Music'', Ludwig van Beethoven, London Symphony Orchestra (1975, Columbia),<ref name="Beethoven Late Choral Music 1975" /> ''Drop Me Off in Harlem'' by Richie Kamuca (1977, Concord Jazz),<ref name="Richie Kamuca 1977"/> ''Wall of Sound'' by Invisible Army (1987, Perfect Beat),<ref name="Invisible Army 1987"/> ''Darkness Into'' by Priscilla Herdman (1987, Flying Fish),<ref name="Priscilla Herdman 1987"/> ''You So Secret'' by Martyn Bates (1989, Integrity),<ref name="Martyn Bates 1989"/> and ''Endless Joy'' by Juan José Verdú Luna (1991, Bioinformation Study).<ref name="Juan Luna 1991"/>

===Exhibitions===

Between 1977 and 2003, Binzen participated in shows at nonprofit galleries in Connecticut and Massachusetts. These included shows in West Cornwall, Connecticut, in 1977,<ref name="Hartford Courant May 1977"/> 1978,<ref name="Berkshire Eagle Nov 1978"/> and 1979;<ref name="Hartford Courant Oct 1979"/> as well as shows in Lakeville, Connecticut;<ref name="The News Feb 1977"/> Canton, Connecticut;<ref name="Hartford Courant May 1977"/> and Sheffield, Massachusetts.<ref name="Republican Jul 1998"/><ref name="Taconic News Jul 1998"/> The 1977 show included a work called "Canoe" that a reviewer called "the focal point of the show" as well as a photo of 10th Street apartment buildings that the review called "Hopperesque".<ref name="Hartford Courant May 1977"/> In 1979 he was given a solo exhibition at the Gimbels art gallery in Manhattan.<ref name="New York Post May 1979"/> In 2002 and 2003 he was given retrospective exhibitions in schools to which he was connected, the first at Hotchkiss and the second at Choate.<ref name="Harlem Valley Times"/><ref name="Record-Journal May 2003"/>

===Photographic technique===

Binzen preferred to use 35 mm cameras in taking natural-light images.<ref name="Pocket Guide 1981"/><ref name="Harlem Valley Times"/> He liked to use color film as a rule but used black and white when filming children in motion or other action subjects.<ref name="Schenectady Gazette Jun 1973"/> He occasionally used pre- and post-production techniques to create special effects. These can be seen in the 1955 ''Life'' photos and his photos created by sandwiching.<ref name="Life Apr 1955"/><ref name="Lakeville Journal Jan 2012"/> However, most of his photos showed minimal or no manipulation on his part. His son, William Binzen, remembers him saying, "I find it very hard to describe what I’m looking for when I look through my camera lens, but I do know that it has everything to do with balanced composition and subtle mood. When those are right, the picture makes itself."<ref name="Bill Binzen Chrysterie"/>

==Books for children==

Between 1963 and 1976, Binzen published 11 books for children. Each relied mainly on photographs to tell its story.<ref name="Lakeville Journal Jan 2012"/> The books were popular, some going into multiple editions. Reviewers were generally, but not entirely, enthusiastic.<ref name="Something About the Author 1981"/> His first children's book contained his drawings rather than photos. Called ''Little Will, the Bugle Boy'' (Abelard) it came out in 1963. <ref name="Little Will 1963"/> Binzen told his son that the drawings were the result of the months he had spent during 1959–1960 in Florence, Italy.<ref name="Bill Binzen Chrysterie"/> His first photo book for children was '' Miguel's Mountain'' (Coward, 1968) which tells of a pile of dirt in Manhattan's Tompkins Square Park near Binzen's apartment. A group of children who enjoy playing on it become worried on hearing a rumor that the city is about to remove it. One of them, Miguel, manages to convince the authorities to change their mind. This book has black and white photos.<ref name="Miguels Mountain 1968"/> An ad in ''Horn Book Magazine'' called it "a warm and realistic urban story about a boy who has never been out of the city."<ref name="Horn Book Magazine Feb 1968"/> A search of the Google Scholar database made in 2025 showed frequent journal citations to it between 1968 and 1986. In 1969 Binzen wrote another book focused on an urban child with a Hispanic name. Entitled ''Carmen'' (Coward-McCann), it features a lonely little girl recently arrived in New York from rural Puerto Rico whose outlook brightens when she makes friends with a girl whose family lives across the street.<ref name="Carmen 1969"/><ref name="Carmen Ebay"/> The next was called ''Punch and Jonathan'' (Pantheon, 1969). Its main character, Jonathan, finds a Punch puppet, plays with him, and eventually gets a behind-the-scenes view of how a puppet show works. A notice from a librarian called it "beautifully illustrated".<ref name="Reynolds County Courier Nov 1972"/> In 1970 Binzen introduced a stuffed bear called Alfred as the hero of what proved to be a series of three successful books. In ''Alfred, the Little Bear'' (Doubleday), Alfred explores the outdoor world.<ref name="Alfred the Little Bear 1970"/> A reviewer for the ''Chicago Tribune'' called it a "charmer", saying that his four-year-old child insisted on re-reading it again and again.<ref name="Chicago Tribune Nov 1970"/> The other two books were ''Alfred Goes House Hunting'' and ''Alfred Goes Flying''.<ref name="Something About the Author 1981"/> One source called the series "probably his best known and loved" of his books and another said it was probably the "most beloved".<ref name="Hartford Courant Nov 2010"/><ref name="Lakeville Journal Jan 2012"/> Binzen's son said his readers, both children and adults, would frequently write him about the three.<ref name="Bill Binzen Chrysterie"/>

Three books appeared in 1972. ''First Day in School'' (Doubleday, 1972) shows the reactions of children as they experience a kindergarten classroom for the first time.<ref name="First Day of School 1972"/> Apprehensive at the start, they eventually overcome their fears and find that school can be fun.<ref name="Pantograph Aug 1977"/> ''Rooftop Hogi'' (Doubleday) follows a boy who watches a neighbor's rooftop pigeons and one day decides to join them in a flight across New York City. The publisher called it "a young boy's escape from the heat, noise, and boredom of a summer afternoon in the city."<ref name="Rooftop Hogi 1972"/> ''The Walk'' (Coward) follows two boys as they take a walk off city streets into the countryside, finding beauty even in the litter they encounter.<ref name="Beatrice Daily Sun Sep 1973"/> ''The Rory Story'' (Doubleday, 1974) is a narrative by a puppy about his daily activities with children in the house where he lives, in its neighborhood, and on family outings.<ref name="Rory Story 1974"/> A library notice called it "an excellent, true-to-life picture book."<ref name="Journal Tribune Mar 1975"/>

==Personal life and family==

Binzen was born in Montclair, New Jersey, on September 21, 1918. His birth name was Frederick William Binzen.<ref name="Hartford Courant Nov 2010"/> His father, also named Frederick William Binzen, was an executive vice president of the J. C. Penney Company.<ref name="Whos Who 1954"/> His mother was Lucy Husted Binzen.<ref name="Hartford Courant Nov 2010"/> He had two younger brothers, Peter and David.<ref name="1930 US Census"/>

His first job on leaving college was as a page for the National Broadcasting Company in Rockefeller Center and tour guide at Radio City Music Hall.<ref name="Lakeville Journal Jan 2012"/> When the US entered World War II, he tried to join the Army Air Corps but, because he was too light for his height, he did not pass the Army's physical exam.<ref name="Lakeville Journal Jan 2012"/> He then spent nine months at a Jackson Hole dude ranch, working to increase his weight, and then passed his physical exam on the second try in October 1942.<ref name="Bill Binzen Chrysterie"/> Once trained, he served in the 463rd Operations Group as co-pilot of a B-17 bomber its crew named ''Umbriago''. During 1944 and 1945 he flew 25 missions from an airfield in Foggia, Italy, to targets in Central Europe.<ref name="Veterans History Interview 2001"/> Other members of the crew included Norman Lear as radio operator and dorsal turret gunner. In 1944 his unit received a citation for an exceptionally long run to Berlin. Although 17 of 31 bombers were downed by enemy fire, the group achieved its objectives and the surviving planes returned safely to base.<ref name="Benicia Herald Mar 2017"/>

In 1947 Binzen married Sara Jane Hipp, stepdaughter of a prominent New York furrier.<ref name="New York Times Jan 1947"/> They had one child, Frederick William Binzen. He and Hipp were divorced in 1954.<ref name="Lakeville Journal Jan 2012"/><ref name="Reno Gazette-Journal May 1954"/> In 1959 Binzen married Gaile Longden, whom he had met when she was a copywriter at the Ogilvy agency where Binzen served as art director.<ref name="Lakeville Journal Jan 2012"/> They had three children: Susanna, Timothy, and Nathaniel.<ref name="Hartford Courant Nov 2010"/> During the 1960s the family lived on 10th Street in New York's East Village.<ref name="Bill Binzen Chrysterie"/> By 1970 they had moved to Salisbury, Connecticut, where he resided for the rest of his life.<ref name="Lakeville Journal Jan 2012"/> Binzen died on November 1, 2010, after battling both cancer and pneumonia.<ref name="Hartford Courant Nov 2010"/>

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<ref name="Advertiser's Weekly Jun 1950">{{cite magazine |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_advertisers-weekly_1950-06-01_148_1930/page/426/mode/1up |magazine=Advertiser's Weekly |volume=148 |issue=1930 |page=426 |date=1950-06-01 |title=In a Big Way |author= |access-date=2024-12-18 }}</ref>

<ref name="Television Digest Jan 1951">{{cite magazine |url=https://archive.org/details/televisiondigest7195code/page/n17/mode/1up |magazine=Television Digest |volume=7 |issue=7 |page=6 |date=1951-01-06 |title=Network Accounts |author= |access-date=2025-01-13 }}</ref>

<ref name="Life Apr 1955">{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s1YEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA13 |magazine=Life |volume=38 |issue=14 |pages=12–14 |date=1955-04-04 |title=Windows on a World; Camera Inside Sees Odd Antics Outside |author= |access-date=2025-01-13 }}</ref>

<ref name="Art Direction Nov 1955">{{cite magazine |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_art-direction_1955-11_7_8/page/35/mode/1up |magazine=Art Direction |volume=7 |issue=8 |page=35 |date=November 1955 |title=Putting on the Dog |author= |access-date=2025-01-16 }}</ref>

<ref name="Art Direction Jun 1956">{{cite magazine |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_art-direction_1956-06_8_3/page/50/mode/2up |title=50 Art/Design Pacesetters |magazine=Art Direction |volume=8 |issue=3 |pages=50, 61 |date=June 1956 |author= |access-date=2024-12-18 }}</ref>

<ref name="Advertising Age Nov 1961">{{cite magazine |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_advertising-age_1961-11-13_32_46/page/136/mode/1up |magazine=Advertising Age |volume=32 |issue=46 |page=136 |date=1961-11-13 |title=Display Ad: Bentley |author= |access-date=2024-12-18 }}</ref>

<ref name="Horn Book Magazine Feb 1968">{{cite magazine |url=https://archive.org/details/hornbookmagazine44febbost/page/7/mode/1up |magazine=Horn Book Magazine |volume=4 |issue=1 |page=5 |date=February 1968 |title=Display Ad: Coward-McCann |author= |access-date=2024-12-18 }}</ref>

<ref name="Horizon 1972">{{cite magazine |url=https://archive.org/details/horizon0000unse_k5w1/page/n4/mode/1up |magazine=Horiozon |volume=14 |issue=4 |page=4 |date=Autumn 1972 |title=The City |author= |access-date=2024-12-18 }}</ref>

<ref name="Time Dec 1973">{{cite magazine |url=https://archive.org/details/time-1973-11-12/Time%201973-12-24/mode/1up |magazine=Time |volume=102 |issue=26 |page=cover |date= |title=The Child's World (Cover Photo) |author= |access-date=2024-12-18 }}</ref>

<ref name="Harpers Mar 1980">{{cite magazine |url=https://archive.org/details/harpersmagazine260alde/page/n190/mode/1up |magazine=Harper's |volume=260 |issue=1558 |page=cover |date= |title=Scenes from Corporate Life (Cover Photo) |author= |access-date=2024-12-18 }}</ref>

<ref name="Whos Who 1954">{{cite book |author= |title=Who's Who in America |url=https://archive.org/details/whoswhoinamerica28chic/page/228/mode/1up |year=1954 |publisher=A.N. Marquis, Chicago |page=229 }}</ref>

<ref name="Little Will 1963">{{cite book |author=Bill Binzen |title=Little Will, the Bugle Boy |url=https://archive.org/details/littlewillbugleb0000bill |year=1963 |publisher=Abelard-Schuman, New York |pages= }}</ref>

<ref name="Miguels Mountain 1968">{{cite book |author=Bill Binzen |title=Miguel's Mountain |url=https://archive.org/details/hornbookmagazine44febbost/page/7/mode/1up |year=1968 |publisher=Coward-McCann, New York |pages= }}</ref>

<ref name="Carmen 1969">{{cite book |author=Bill Binzen |title=Carmen |url=https://archive.org/details/carmen0000unse_g8c9/mode/2up |year=1963 |publisher=Coward-McCann, New York |pages= }}</ref>

<ref name="Color 1970">{{cite book |author= |title=Color (Life Library of Photography) |url=https://archive.org/details/colorlifelibrary0000edit/page/32/mode/2up |year=1970 |publisher=Time-Life Books, New York |pages= }}</ref>

<ref name="Alfred the Little Bear 1970">{{cite book |author=Bill Binzen |title=Alfred the Little Bear |url=http://chrysterie.com/alfred.html |year=1970 |publisher=Doubleday, New York |pages= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180817042455/http://chrysterie.com/alfred.html |archive-date=2018-08-17 }}</ref>

<ref name="Special Problems 1971">{{cite book |author= |title=Special Problems (Life Library of Photography) |url=https://archive.org/details/specialproblems0000unse/page/198/mode/2up |year=1971 |publisher=Time-Life Books, New York |pages= }}</ref>

<ref name="Photographing Children 1971">{{cite book |author= |title=Photographing Children (Life Library of Photography) |url=https://archive.org/details/photographingchi00time/page/112/mode/2up |year=1971 |publisher=Time-Life Books, New York |pages= }}</ref>

<ref name="All on a Summer's Day 1971">{{cite book |author1=William Wise |author2=Bill Binzen |title=All on a Summer's Day |url=https://archive.org/details/allonsummersday00wise/mode/2up |year=1971 |publisher=Pantheon Books, New York |pages= }}</ref>

<ref name="Park in the City 1971">{{cite book |author1=Philip Ressner |author2=Bill Binzen |title=Park in the City |url=https://archive.org/details/parkincity0000phil |year=1971 |publisher=E.P. Dutton, New York |pages= }}</ref>

<ref name="Urban Reader 1971">{{cite book |author=Susan Neunzig Cahill |title=The Urban Reader |url=https://archive.org/details/urbanreader0000cahi/page/n5/mode/2up |year=1971 |publisher=Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey |pages= |isbn=978-0-13-939041-8 }}</ref>

<ref name="Travel Photography 1972">{{cite book |author= |title=Travel Photography (Life Library of Photography) |url=https://archive.org/details/lifelibraryofpho0000unse_o2k4/page/20/mode/2up |year=1972 |publisher=Time-Life Books, New York |pages= }}</ref>

<ref name="Rooftop Hogi 1972">{{cite book |author=Bill Binzen |title=Rooftop Hogi |url=https://archive.org/details/rooftophogi0000bill/page/n6/mode/1up |year=1972 |publisher=Doubleday and Co., Garden City, New York |pages= }}</ref>

<ref name="First Day of School 1972">{{cite book |author=Bill Binzen |title=First Day of School |url=https://archive.org/details/firstdayinschool0000binz/page/n7/mode/2up |year=1972 |publisher=Doubleday and Co., Garden City, New York |pages= }}</ref>

<ref name="Rory Story 1974">{{cite book |author=Bill Binzen |title=The Rory Story |url=https://archive.org/details/rorystory00binz/page/n3/mode/2up |year=1974 |publisher=Doubleday and Co., Garden City, New York |pages= |isbn=978-0-385-08752-0 }}</ref>

<ref name="Family of Woman 1979">{{cite book |author=Jerry Mason |title=The Family of Woman |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_0448162652/page/6/mode/2up |year=1979 |publisher=Grosset & Dunlap, New York |page=6 |isbn=978-0-448-16265-2 }}</ref>

<ref name="After the First Death 1979">{{cite book |author=Robert Cormier |title=After the First Death |url= |year=1979 |publisher=Pantheon Books, New York |pages= }}</ref>

<ref name="More Joy of Photography 1981">{{cite book |author=Keith A. Boas |title=More Joy of Photography |url=https://archive.org/details/morejoyofphotogr0000unse_e2s9/page/4/mode/2up |year=1981 |publisher=Addison-Wesley, New York |pages= }}</ref>

<ref name="Pocket Guide 1981">{{cite book |author=Eastman Kodak Company |title=Kodak Pocket Guide to 35mm Photography |url=https://archive.org/details/mcpcambridgework0000barr/page/n3/mode/1up |year=1981 |publisher=Silver Pixel Press, Rochester, New York |page=49 }}</ref>

<ref name="Something About the Author 1981">{{cite book |author=Anne Commire |title=Something About the Author |url=https://archive.org/details/somethingaboutau00anne_1/page/48/mode/1up |year=1981 |publisher=Gale Research, Detroit, Michigan |page=48 |isbn=978-0-8103-0087-3 }}</ref>

<ref name="Scenes from Corporate Life 1984">{{cite book |author=Earl Shorris |title=Scenes from Corporate Life |url=https://archive.org/details/scenesfromcorpor0000shor/page/n419/mode/2up |year=1984 |publisher=Penguin Books, New York |page=cover photo |isbn=978-0-14-007277-8 }}</ref>

<ref name="Ogilvy on Advertising 1985">{{cite book |author=David Ogilvy |title=Ogilvy on Advertising |page=85 |url=https://archive.org/details/ogilvyonadvertis0000ogil_g3n4/page/18/mode/1up |year=1985 |publisher=Vintage Books, New York }}</ref>

<ref name="Berkshires 1986">{{cite book |author=Bill Binzen |title=The Berkshires |url=https://archive.org/details/berkshires00binz/page/n1/mode/2up |year=1986 |publisher=Oxford University Press, Toronto |pages= |isbn=978-0-19-540634-4 }}</ref>

<ref name="5 Giants of Advertising 2001">{{cite book |author=Philippe Lorin |title=5 Giants of Advertising |url=https://archive.org/details/5giantsofadverti0000lori/page/101/mode/1up |year=2001 |publisher=Assouline, New York |pages=99–102 |isbn=978-2-84323-249-7 }}</ref>

<ref name="Fragmenting Family 2006">{{cite book |author=Brenda Almond |title=The Fragmenting Family |url=https://archive.org/details/fragmentingfamil0000almo/mode/1up |year=2006 |publisher=Oxford University Press, New York |page=cover photo }}</ref>

<ref name="Hathaway Campaign">{{cite web |url=https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/history-advertising-no-110-hathaway-mans-eyepatch/1317084 |title=History of Advertising: No 110: The Hathaway Man's Eyepatch |author= |work=Campaign; Haymarket Media Group |access-date=2024-12-22}}</ref>

<ref name="Bill Binzen Chrysterie">{{cite web |url=http://chrysterie.com/about.html |title=Bill Binzen Gallery |author= |work=chrysterie.com |access-date=2024-12-17}}</ref>

<ref name="Ad Campaign Work">{{cite web |url=http://chrysterie.com/advertising/adcamp.html |title=Ad Campaign Work |author=Bill Binzen |work=chrysterie.com |access-date=2025-01-13 }}</ref>

<ref name="Rendering from the Schweppes Campaign">{{cite web |url=http://chrysterie.com/advertising/adsamp2.html |title=Renderings and Ads from the Schweppes Campaign |author=Bill Binzen |work=chrysterie.com |access-date=2025-01-13 }}</ref>

<ref name="Schweppes Campaign">{{cite web |url=http://chrysterie.com/advertising/adsample.html |title=The Schweppes Campaign |author=Bill Binzen |work=chrysterie.com |access-date=2025-01-13 }}</ref>

<ref name="Puerto Rico Campaign">{{cite web |url=http://chrysterie.com/advertising/puerto.html |title=The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Campaign |author=Bill Binzen |work=chrysterie.com |access-date=2025-01-16 }}</ref>

<ref name="Doubletake Richardson">{{cite web |url=https://jayarichardson.com/doubletake |title=Doubletake |author=Bill Binzen |work=Grossman Publishers |access-date=2025-01-26 }}</ref>

<ref name="Carmen Ebay">{{cite web |url=https://www.ebay.com/itm/325715855413?_skw=carmen+binzen&itmmeta=01JK62SB6HM85E0PC1Q153KMMF&hash=item4bd62d8835:g:XDsAAOSwhN9koH5O&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAA0HoV3kP08IDx%2BKZ9MfhVJKnVe7jj7batdh50uwvmlv7wXL9GwmUWRYwhj66dWkV2h8CcIG%2Bc%2B7esLr7hIw19SZTJkjoRgyDlfIPokqgCfB4xGFT1F8Hw%2BtU3KnI87IjkT0MMyLYpia0JQkbnfw4qVOrkCCPNYxjR9%2Bt%2BqMvrrQlH2MBfrjIEuBRPqH3YPsBPz0JgIqNDb4wyomvCnyeUqNsK%2FInl%2F1eDEzsYjZLkM83oP1SlU9xzaBx650OZjrz9j4GDll9BjC9WM4g2vxvtt3s%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR66z5cKZZQ |title=Carmen |author=Bill Binzen |work=Ebay |access-date=2025-02-03 }}</ref>

<ref name="1930 US Census">{{cite web |url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X4NH-KY1 |title=Frederick W. Binzen, Sr. |work=1930 United States Census via familysearch |access-date=2024-12-20 }}</ref>

<ref name="Veterans History Interview 2001">{{cite AV media |people=Bill Binzen (interviewee), Thomas J. Wiener (interviewer) |date=2005-12-31 |title=Frederick William Binzen |url=https://www.loc.gov/item/afc2001001.65081/ |trans-title= |format= |work= |type= |language= |location=Washington, D.C. |publisher=Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress |access-date=2025-01-04 }}</ref>

<ref name="Brubeck Trio 1968">{{cite AV media |title=The Dave Brubeck Trio Featuring Gerry Mulligan |year=1968 |format=LP album, stereo |url=https://www.discogs.com/artist/10555120-The-Dave-Brubeck-Trio-Featuring-Gerry-Mulligan |publisher=Columbia Records |access-date=2025-01-26 }}</ref>

<ref name="Cryan Shames 1968">{{cite AV media |title=Cryan' Shames, Synthesis |year=1968 |format=LP album, stereo |url=https://www.discogs.com/master/165712-Cryan-Shames-Synthesis |publisher=Columbia Records |access-date=2025-01-26 }}</ref>

<ref name="Naniwa Express 1974">{{cite AV media |title=Naniwa Express - 大宇宙無限力神 |year=1974 |format=LP album, stereo |url=https://www.discogs.com/release/10702144-Naniwa-Express-%E6%B5%AA%E8%8A%B1%E3%82%A8%E3%82%AD%E3%82%B9%E3%83%97%E3%83%AC%E3%82%B9-Daiuchuhmugenryokushin-%E5%A4%A7%E5%AE%87%E5%AE%99%E7%84%A1%E9%99%90%E5%8A%9B%E7%A5%9E |publisher=Sony Records |access-date=2025-01-26 }}</ref>

<ref name="Tabernacle Choir 1975">{{cite AV media |title=Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Rock of Ages |year=1975 |format=LP album, stereo |url=https://www.discogs.com/master/620531-The-Mormon-Tabernacle-ChoirPhiladelphia-Brass-Ensemble-And-Percussion-Richard-Condie-Alexander-Schre |publisher=Columbia Records |access-date=2025-01-26 }}</ref>

<ref name="Larry Coryell 1975">{{cite AV media |title=Larry Coryell, The Restful Mind |year=1975 |format=LP album, stereo |url=https://www.discogs.com/master/162715-Larry-Coryell-The-Restful-Mind |publisher=Vanguard Records |access-date=2025-01-26 }}</ref>

<ref name="Beethoven Late Choral Music 1975">{{cite AV media |title=Beethoven Late Choral Music |year=1975 |format=LP album, stereo |url=https://www.discogs.com/master/806102-Beethoven-Michael-Tilson-Thomas-London-Symphony-Orchestra-Late-Choral-Music |publisher=Columbia Records |access-date=2025-01-26 }}</ref>

<ref name="Richie Kamuca 1977">{{cite AV media |title=Richie Kamuca, Drop Me Off in Harlem |year=1977 |format=LP album, stereo |url=https://www.discogs.com/release/2319142-Richie-Kamuca-Drop-Me-Off-In-Harlem |publisher=Concord Jazz |access-date=2025-01-26 }}</ref>

<ref name="Invisible Army 1987">{{cite AV media |title=Invisible Army, Wall of Sound |year=1987 |format=LP album, stereo |url=https://www.discogs.com/release/1603659-Invisible-Army-Wall-Of-Sound |publisher=Perfect Beat Records |access-date=2025-01-26 }}</ref>

<ref name="Priscilla Herdman 1987">{{cite AV media |title=Priscilla Herdman, Darkness Into |year=1987 |format=LP album, stereo |url=https://www.discogs.com/release/6786353-Priscilla-Herdman-Darkness-Into-Light |publisher=Flying Fish Records |access-date=2025-01-26 }}</ref>

<ref name="Martyn Bates 1989">{{cite AV media |title=Martyn Bates, You So Secret |year=1989 |format=EP 12-inch album, stereo |url=https://www.discogs.com/release/615791-Martyn-Bates-You-So-Secret |publisher=Integrity Records |access-date=2025-01-26 }}</ref>

<ref name="Juan Luna 1991">{{cite AV media |title=Juan José Verdú Luna, Endless Joy |year=1991 |format=LP album, stereo |url=https://www.discogs.com/master/1804628-Juan-Jos%C3%A9-Verd%C3%BA-Luna-Endless-Joy-La-Alegr%C3%ADa-Infinita |publisher=Bioinformation Study (ESTUDIO DE BIOINFORMACIÓN, Valencia, Spain) |access-date=2025-01-26 }}</ref>

<ref name="New York Times Jan 1947">{{cite news |title=Sarah Hipp Married in Passaic Church |work=New York Times |date=1947-01-05 |location=New York, New York |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_new-york-times_1947-01-05_96_32488/page/n48/mode/1up |page=50 }}</ref>

<ref name="Reno Gazette-Journal May 1954">{{cite news |title=Decrees Granted |work=Reno Gazette-Journal |date=1954-05-19 |location=Reno, Nevada |url= |page=14 }}</ref>

<ref name="San Francisco Examiner Dec 1968">{{cite news |title=Art of the Camera |author= |work=San Francisco Examiner |date=1968-12-01 |location=San Francisco, California |url= |page=65 }}</ref>

<ref name="Chicago Tribune Nov 1970">{{cite news |title=Children's Book World |author= |work=Chicago Tribune |date=1970-11-08 |location=San Francisco, California |url= |page=3 }}</ref>

<ref name="Courtland Standard Mar 1972">{{cite news |title=Camera Angles |work=Coutland Standard |date=1972-03-15 |location=Courtland, New York |url= |page=2 }}</ref>

<ref name="Reynolds County Courier Nov 1972">{{cite news |title=Library Tips|work=Reynolds County Courier |date=1972-11-16 |location=Ellington, Missouri |url= |page=6 }}</ref>

<ref name="Schenectady Gazette Jun 1973">{{cite news |title=Camera Angles |work=Schenectady Gazette |date=1973-06-26 |location=New York, New York |url= |page=29 }}</ref>

<ref name="Beatrice Daily Sun Sep 1973">{{cite news |title=Books of Interest at the Beatrice Public Library |work=Beatrice Daily Sun |date=1973-08-15 |location=Beatrice, Nebraska |url= |page=4 }}</ref>

<ref name="Journal Tribune Mar 1975">{{cite news |title=Lebonon Library |work=Journal Tribune |date=1975-03-20 |location=Biddeford, Maine |url= |page=23 }}</ref>

<ref name="Hartford Courant May 1977">{{cite news |title=Cornwall Photography Show Colorful |work=Hartford Courant |date=1977-05-15 |location=Hartford, Connecticut |url= |page=169 }}</ref>

<ref name="The News Feb 1977">{{cite news |title=Exhibits |work=The News |date=1977-02-24 |location=Millerton, New York |url= |page= }}</ref>

<ref name="Pantograph Aug 1977">{{cite news |title=Books May Help School Beginners |work=Pantograph |date=1977-08-07 |location=Bloomington, Illinois |url= |page=11 }}</ref>

<ref name="Berkshire Eagle Nov 1978">{{cite news |title=Exhibits |author= |work=Berkshire Eagle |date=1978-11-24 |location=Pittsfield, Massachusetts |url= |page=7 }}</ref>

<ref name="New York Post May 1979">{{cite news |title=Counter Spy |author=Amy Pagnozzi |work=New York Post |date=1979-05-22 |location=New York, New York |url= |page= }}</ref>

<ref name="Hartford Courant Oct 1979">{{cite news |title=Area Artists to Display in Exhibition |work=Hartford Courant |date=1979-10-29 |location=Hartford, Connecticut |url= |page=63 }}</ref>

<ref name="Berkshire Eagle Sep 1986">{{cite news |title=Book Mark |author=Mark Miller |work=Berkshire Eagle |date=1986-09-13 |location=Pittsfield, Massachusetts |url= |page=22 }}</ref>

<ref name="Taconic News Jul 1998">{{cite news |title=Artcetera |work=Taconic News |date=1998-07-16 |location=Sheffield, Massachusetts |url= |page=29 }}</ref>

<ref name="Republican Jul 1998">{{cite news |title=Speaking of Art |work=Republican |date=1998-07-19 |location=Springfield, Massachusetts |url= |page=83 }}</ref>

<ref name="Chicago Tribune Jul 1999">{{cite news |title=Adman David Ogilvy, 88 |work=Chicago Tribune |date=1999-07-21 |location=Chicago, Illinois |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1999/07/22/adman-david-ogilvy-88/ |page= }}</ref>

<ref name="Harlem Valley Times">{{cite news |title=Artcentera |author= |work=Harlem Valley Times |date=2022-01-22 |location=Armenia, New York |url= |page=20 }}</ref>

<ref name="Record-Journal May 2003">{{cite news |title=Paul Mellon Art Center |work=Record-Journal |date=2003-05-22 |location=Meriden, Connecticut |url= |page=28 }}</ref>

<ref name="Hartford Courant Nov 2010">{{cite news |title=Bill Binzen Obituary |work=Hartford Courant |date=2010-11-07 |location=Hartford, Connecticut |url=https://www.courant.com/obituaries/bill-binzen-salisbury-ct/ |page= }}</ref>

<ref name="Lakeville Journal Jan 2012">{{cite news |title=Frederick William Binzen |work=Lakeville Journal |date=2012-01-27 |location=Hartford, Connecticut |url=https://lakevillejournal.com/frederick-william-binzen |page= }}</ref>

<ref name="Benicia Herald Mar 2017">{{cite news |title=Descendant of World War II Co-pilot Flies Aboard B-17 |work=Benecia Herald |date=2017-03-14 |location=Benicia, California |url=https://beniciaheraldonline.com/descendant-of-world-war-ii-co-pilot-flies-aboard-b-17/ |page= }}</ref>

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==External links== *[https://www.loc.gov/item/afc2001001.65081/ Library of Congress, Veterans History Project, Interview: Frederick William Binzen Speaking to Thomas J. Wiener Jr., Recorded December 31, 2005] *[https://billbinzen1527.zenfolio.com/ Bill Binzen (portfolio and weblog)]

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