{{short description|North American street photographer|bot=PearBOT 5}} [[Image:Billdane.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Dane, c.2010]] '''Bill Dane''' (aka Bill Zulpo-Dane, born William Thacher Dane on November 12, 1938) is a [[North American]] [[Street photography|street photographer]]. Dane pioneered a way to subsidize his public by using [[Postcard|photographic postcards]].<ref name="swidler">Swidler, Ann. Introduction to: ''Bill Dane Photographs Outside and Inside America'', Diputacion Provencial De Granada, Spain, 1993</ref><ref name="szarkowski">Szarkowski, John - Eugenia Parry Janis and Wendy MacNeil, eds. ''Photography Within the Humanities'', New Hampshire, Addison House, 1977, words: pp.81&85, picture: p.85</ref> He has mailed over 50,000 of his pictures as photo-postcards since 1969.<ref name="leger">Leger, Marc James. [https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a7390aacd39c3cbc3819b1b/t/5b4bb01b562fa75c9634b646/1531686990405/marcleger.pdf Posting the Personal, Some Thoughts on the Postcard Work of Bill Dane] Visual & Cultural Studies, University of Rochester, New York, 1995</ref><ref name="szarkowskimoma">Szarkowski, John - "Unfamiliar Places: A Message from Bill Dane," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1973</ref><ref name="collins">Collins, James. ARTFORUM, Review of Bill Dane, 12, #7, March 1974, words: pp.76&77, picture: p.76</ref><ref name="green">Green, Jonathan. ''American Photography: A Critical History 1945 to the Present'', New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1984, words: p.180, picture: p.178</ref><ref name="edkins">Edkins, Diana. ''Landscape & Discovery, Hofstra University'', New York, 1973, words: pp.1&3, picture: p.13</ref> As of 2007, Dane's method for making his photographs available shifted from mailing photo-postcards to offering his entire body of work on the internet.<ref name="dane">A Comprehensive Catalog of Photographer Bill Dane's Work: [http://www.billdane.com/pictures.html Bill Dane On The Internet] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130318220107/http://www.billdane.com/pictures.html |date=March 18, 2013 }}</ref>
==Education== Dane studied [[Political Science]] and [[Art]]/[[Painting]] at the [[University of California, Berkeley]].<ref name="szarkowskimoma" /> He graduated with a BA in 1964, and a MA in Art/Painting in 1968. Dane painted for seven years before discovering photography in 1969.<ref name="szarkowski"/><ref name="fitzgibbon">FitzGibbon, John. Death Valley to Phoenix to Santa Fe and the Sangre De Christo, Hope You Like It, [[Aperture (magazine)|Aperture]] Magazine 94 (Spring 1984), words: pp.22-25, pictures: pp.23-31</ref> He worked with [[Diane Arbus]] and [[Lee Friedlander]] at [[Hampshire College]] in the summer of 1971.<ref name="bosworth">Bosworth, Patricia. ''Diane Arbus: A Biography'', New York, Knopf, 1984, words: p.304</ref><ref name="arbus">Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts: [[Hampshire College#Notable past and present faculty|Notable Past and Present Faculty]]</ref>
==Photographic career== [[Image:Universalcity1974.jpg|thumb|right|250px|''Universal City, 1974''<ref name="universalcity">Fraenkel, Jeffrey and Eugenia Parry Janis. The Kiss of Apollo: Photography & Sculpture 1845 to the Present, [[Fraenkel Gallery]] and Bedford Arts, San Francisco, 1991, words: p.10, picture: pl.34</ref>]] [[Image:Sanfrancisco2005.jpg|thumb|right|250px|''San Francisco, 2005''<ref name="baker">Baker, Kenneth. "[https://archive.today/20121211043147/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/06/03/DDGORJ6BFO1.DTL&hw=bill+dane&sn=001&sc=1000 Nothing Escapes His Eye, Not Even Himself]," [[San Francisco Chronicle]], Saturday, June 3, 2006</ref>]]
Dane was recognized by the [[John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation]] with [[Guggenheim Fellowship]]s in 1973 and 1982.<ref name="guggenheim">From www.gf.org: [http://www.gf.org/fellows/all?index=d All Guggenheim Fellowships]</ref> He received Fellowships from the [[National Endowment for the Arts]] in 1976 and 1977.<ref name="nea">From www.nea.gov: [http://www.nea.gov/about/AnnualReports/NEA-Annual-Report-1976.pdf NEA Annual report 1976] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101125174512/http://nea.gov/about/AnnualReports/NEA-Annual-Report-1976.pdf |date=2010-11-25 }} and [http://www.nea.gov/about/AnnualReports/NEA-Annual-Report-1978.pdf NEA Annual Report 1978] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101125172828/http://nea.gov/about/AnnualReports/NEA-Annual-Report-1978.pdf |date=2010-11-25 }}</ref> He used his grants to photograph inside and outside North America. The results of Dane's explorations have been viewed on his photo-postcards, in exhibitions, catalogs, books, magazines, and over the internet. ''Unfamiliar Places: A Message From Bill Dane'' was his seminal exhibit at the [[Museum of Modern Art]] in 1973.<ref name="szarkowskimoma" /><ref name="collins" /> While Dane continues as a [[Straight photography|straight]], [[Still life photography|still photographer]] working in [[Public spaces|public places]], his pictures have evolved dramatically over time.<ref name="baker" />
==Collections== Dane's photographs are held in the following permanent public collections: {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *[[Amon Carter Museum]], Fort Worth, TX<ref name="amoncarter">[http://www.cartermuseum.org/imu/acm/#details=ecatalogue.35278] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180623214424/http://www.cartermuseum.org/imu/acm/#details=ecatalogue.35278 |date=2018-06-23 }} Amon Carter Museum of American Art- Bill Dane</ref> *[[Art Institute of Chicago]], Chicago, IL<ref name="artinstitutechicago"> [http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/63899?search_no=3&index=0] Art Institute of Chicago - William Dane</ref> *[[Bibliothèque Nationale]], Paris<ref name="bibliothequenational"> [http://catalogue.bnf.fr/rechercher.do?motRecherche=bill%20dane] Bibliotheque Nationale Paris - Bill Dane</ref> *[[Fogg Museum]], [[Harvard University]], Cambridge, MA<ref name="harvardartmuseums">[https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/person/22059?person=22059] Harvard Art Museum - Bill Dane</ref> *[[Madison Art Center]], Madison, Wisconsin, WI{{cn|date=July 2018}} *[[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], New York<ref name="themet"> [https://www.metmuseum.org/search-results#!/search?q=bill%20dane] The Met - Bill Dane</ref> *[[Museum of Fine Arts, Boston]], MA<ref name="fineartsboston"> [https://www.mfa.org/collections/object/1980-berkeley-california-175100] Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - William Thacher Dane</ref> *[[Museum of Fine Arts, Houston]], TX<ref name="fineartshouston"> [https://www.mfah.org/art/search?artist=Bill+Dane] The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston - Bill Dane</ref> *[[Museum of Modern Art, New York]]<ref name="momaartistpage"> [https://www.moma.org/artists/1374] MoMA - Bill Dane</ref> *[[National Gallery of Art]], Washington D.C.<ref name="nationalgalleryofart"> [https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.16504.html] National Gallery of Art, DC - Bill Dane</ref> *[[Oakland Museum]], Oakland, CA{{cn|date=July 2018}} *[[Ohio State University]] Libraries, Columbus, OH<ref name="ohiostate"> [http://library.ohio-state.edu/record=b3218185] OSU Library Catalog - Bill Dane</ref> *Provincial Museum, [[Granada, Spain]]<ref name="thevanguard"> [https://www.lavanguardia.com/local/sevilla/20180315/441545493453/diputacion-de-granada-exhibe-su-coleccion-de-fotografias-con-grandes-autores.html] The Vanguard: "[...] and a final part where the authors are best represented within the collection, such as Bill Dane ("Outside and inside America")[...]"</ref><ref name="GranadaToday"> [https://www.granadahoy.com/ocio/Granada-saca-brillo-patrimonio-fotografico_0_1227477264.html] Granada Today: "Since yesterday, the Palace of the Counts of Gabia has exhibited them along with a hundred snapshots made by top-level artists such as Chema Madoz, Bill Dane, Ouka Leele, Manuel Bello and Angeles Agrela. All of them belong to the photographic collection of the provincial institution and are part of the Showroom exhibition [...]" </ref> *[[San Francisco Museum of Modern Art]], San Francisco, CA<ref name="sfmoma"> [https://www.sfmoma.org/search/?q=bill+dane] SFMoMA - Bill Dane</ref> *[[Smithsonian American Art Museum]] / [[National Portrait Gallery (United States)|National Portrait Gallery Library]], Washington, D.C.<ref name="smithsonianlibraries"> [http://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollections/art-design/artandartistfiles/vf_details.cfm?id=12265] Smithsonian Libraries - Bill Dane</ref> {{div col end}}
==Reactions of notable critics== * [[A. D. Coleman]]: "Now, if I were a photographer myself, I would be deeply Insulted by this show. I would be insulted that an institution so prestigious and powerful as the Museum of Modern Art would present, as photographically exemplary, a collection of random snapshots by someone who has not even established enough craft competence to make his disregard of craft standards a significant esthetic choice."<ref name="coleman">"Focus on the Old South," A.D. Coleman, New York Times, December 16, 1973</ref> * [[John Szarkowski]]: "It seems to me that the subject of Bill Dane’s pictures is the discovery of lyric beauty in Oakland, or the discovery of surprise and delight in what we had been told was a wasteland of boredom, the discovery of classical measure in the heart of God’s own junkyard, the discovery of a kind of optimism, still available at least to the eye."<ref name="szarkowski" /> * [[Patricia Bosworth]]: "In class [Diane Arbus] kept stressing the factual, the literal, the specificity inherent in photography. She loved Bill Dane’s postcard photographs of American landscapes."<ref name="bosworth" /> * [[Diana Edkins]]: "The adequacy of meaning lies in what we recognize as the intensity of Dane’s human response."<ref name="edkins" /> * [[Ann Swidler]]: "A strain of American photography since Robert Frank has concerned itself with finding what is centrally American - attempting the great American novel in visual form." "The greatest American stories, like The Deerslayer, Huckleberry Finn, or Moby Dick, were boys’ stories, written for a culture which didn't want to grow up. Yet in their secret hearts, those stories were about evil and the kind of redemption that might come from confronting its mysteries." "Dane shows us not an exotic heart of darkness, but the American difficulty in dealing with what we cannot understand, own, or control." "Bill Dane's photographs seem to be about foreignness, both here and abroad. But they are really about us as Americans. They ask whether we can learn to love - not because alien worlds accommodate themselves to what we expect, but because we have learned to see even where we cannot understand."<ref name="swidler" /> * [[Fraenkel Gallery|Jeffrey Fraenkel]]: "'What’s that?' is not an uncommon response for viewers confronting one of Bill Dane’s photographs. This is a curious question, given the fact that Dane approaches the 'real world' with his camera as squarely as Atget, Evans, or Friedlander. He photographs what exists, with no manipulation or fabrication."<ref name="fraenkel">Fraenkel, Jeffrey. ''Bill Dane's History of the Universe'', San Francisco, Fraenkel Gallery, 1992, words: p.Introduction, pictures: pp.1-25</ref> * [[Sandra S. Phillips]]: "The vision of the world of Bill Dane, both inside and outside America, is often downright funny. But often, it is also a tragic vision. In his photographs are voltages, a disturbing strangeness."<ref name="phillips">Phillips, Sandra - Yolanda Romero Gomez, Comisaria. "Coleccion Deputacion De Granada," Diputacion Provencial De Granada, Spain, 1995, words: pp.60-61, picture: p.63</ref> * [[Bill Berkson]]: "Dane has cast himself as a surveyor of ceremonies stuck deep in our wishful, ornamental glut, our fuss."<ref name="berkson">Berkson, Bill. ARTFORUM, Review of Bill Dane, 25 # 3, November 1986, words: pp.143-144, picture: p.144</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Further reading==
*Dane, Bill: pictures, Katherine Mills: design, Gary Bogus: binding. Little Known, Handmade Book, Bill Dane, Albany, CA, 1983 *Gollonet, Carlos, Coordina. Catalog to accompany the Exhibition, Bill Dane Photographs Outside and Inside America, Diputacion Provencial De Granada, Spain and The Fraenkel Gallery, 1993 *Di Rosa, Rene. Local Color, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 1999, words: p. 10, words and picture: pp. 82–83 *FitzGibbon, John. California A-Z and Return, The Butler Institute, Youngstown, Ohio, 1990, words and picture: p. 12 *Graphis Press, [[Robert Delpire]] Introduction. Fine Art Photography ‘95, Graphis Publishing, Zurich, Switzerland, 1995, picture: p. 79 *Galassi, Peter. Walker Evans & Company, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2000, picture: p. 195 *Gomez, Yolanda Romero, Coordina. Exhibit: Bill Dane Photographs Outside and Inside America, Diputacion Provencial De Granada, Spain, 1993 *[[Jonathan Green (photographer)|Green, Jonathan]]. The Snapshot, New York, Aperture Foundation, 1974, pictures: pp. 96–105 *Harris, Melissa, ed. APERTURE, # 124, Collection of Joshua P. Smith, summer 1991, picture: p. 32 *Heyman, Therese. Slices of Time: California Landscapes 1860 -1880, 1960–1980, Oakland, Oakland Museum, 1981, picture: p. 21 *Munsterberg, Marjorie. Calendar, On Time, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1974, pictures: week of Aug 25 *Noble, Alexandra and Nigel Barley, et al. The Animal in Photography1843-1985, The Photographer's Gallery, London, 1986, picture: p. 9 *Osman, Colin and Peter Turner. Creative Camera, Sept. 1976, pictures: pp. 308–311 *Phillips, Sandra. Crossing the Frontier: Photographs of the Developing West, 1849 to the Present, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Chronicle Books, San Francisco 1996, picture: plate103 *Phillips, Sandra. Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera Since 1870, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art with Yale University Press, 2010, words: p. 23, picture: pl.30 *[[Leo Rubinfien|Rubinfien, Leo]]. Love/Hate Relations, Review of work by [[Tod Papageorge]] and Bill Dane, ARTFORUM, NY, Vol. 26, #10, Summer 1978, words: pp. 46–51, pictures: pp. 46,50,51 *Silverman, Ruth. Athletes, New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1987, picture: p. 123 *Silverman, Ruth. Dog Days, San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1989, picture: week of Aug 8 *Silverman, Ruth. The Dog, San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 2000, picture: p. 79 *Silverman, Ruth. San Francisco Observed, San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1986, picture: p. 116 *Szarkowski, John. American Landscapes, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1981, picture: p. 72 *Szarkowski, John. Mirrors and Windows, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1978, pictures: pp. 122–123 *Turner, Peter, ed. American Images: Photography 1945–1980, London, Penguin Books/Barbican Art gallery, 1985, words-picture: p. 162 *Velick, Bruce. A Kiss is Just A Kiss, Crown Publishers, N.Y. 1990, picture: p. 38
==External links== * {{Official website|billdane.com}} * Dane's seminal show at MoMA: [https://billdane.com/moma-1973 Unfamiliar Places: A Message From Bill Dane] * [https://billdane.com/elliott-linwood-interview An Interview with Dane] by [[Elliott Linwood]]
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