Michael Dweck

Quick Facts

Full Name	Michael Dweck
Occupation	Photographer
Date Of Birth	Sep 26, 1957(1957-09-26)
Age	67
Birthplace	Brooklyn
Country	United States
Birth City	New York
Horoscope	Virgo

Michael Dweck Biography

Michael Dweck is one of the most popular and richest Photographer who was born on September 26, 1957 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Dweck was the son of Sydelle and David Dweck, who were born in Brooklyn in 1957. David was an accountant in Bellmore, Long Island, after which the family moved to Bellmore. Dweck’s father gave him his first camera at the 1964 New York World’s Fair.

The story centers on a couple in their 80s, Barbara Cromarty and Jim Cromarty who own and operate Riverhead Raceway since 1977. The Cromartys receive over $10 million in offers to sell Riverhead Raceway. This raceway is the last on Long Island and would be replaced with a multiplex theater. However, they refuse to sell it. According to the Florida Film Festival, selling the track would “cast adrift an extended tribe of adrenaline-junky driver, fans, and family, all inexorably connected to the asphalt oval, where blue-collar glory still triumphs above white-collar profits.” Justin Lowe, the Hollywood Reporter’s film critic, says that it “represents more a living document about a dwindling American culture than a typical sports documentary.” In which Dweck “explore[s] the themes of masculine identity [and class representation that underlie stock-car racing,” Nick Allen of RogerEbert.com describes the track and its racers “nutshells” of Americana and testosterone.

For decades, Montauk had been undergoing a gradual trasmformation from a fishing village to a beachside resort. By the 1990s, developers, running out of room in the greater New York region, had begun to focus on the far eastern reaches of Long Island. Wrting for Forbes, art critic Patrick Hanlon called The End an “act of preservation,” later likening it to “an attempt to freeze time.” Hanlon quoted Dweck saying, “I knew Montauk would change, and I wanted to capture the way Montauk made me feel. I didn’t want it to be sentimental or nostalgic. I wanted that collection of images to freeze Montauk.”

Still better known was the agency’s 1998 television spot for Dial-a-Mattress, which featured a cantankerous man-sized Arctic ground squirrel purchasing a mattress on which to hibernate for the winter. The ad, noted for its comic abrasiveness, was pulled from the airwaves after only 13 days. It then went on to win a Gold Lion award at the Cannes International Advertising Festival, and was selected for inclusion in both the Gale Group’s 100 most influential marketing campaigns of the year and Boards magazine’s Top 10 Boards awards of 1999.

Dweck graduated in 1975 from Bellmore’s John F. Kennedy High School. After graduating from Bellmore’s John F. Kennedy High School in 1975, Dweck attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Dweck was originally an architect student. However, he switched to communication and fine art in 1976 after being suggested by the department. He designed a house for Colonel Sanders, Kentucky Fried Chicken, for a school project. He also designed an AT&T building that resembled a huge phone booth for another project. He received his bachelor’s degree from The New School for Social Research in 1979.

Michael Dweck Net Worth

Michael Dweck is one of the richest Photographer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Michael Dweck 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Dweck was born in Brooklyn in 1957. He grew up in Bellmore on Long Island and attended John F. Kennedy High School, Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute, and Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute, where he studied architecture, communication, and fine arts. Dweck, who graduated in 1957, founded Michael Dweck & Co. (later Dweck & Campbell). He won a variety of awards from the advertising industry before closing down the company in 2001 to pursue artistic pursuits. Dweck gained a solid reputation for fine art photography over the next ten years. His works include The End: Montauk (N.Y.), Mermaids (2008), and Habana Libre (2011). Dweck has expanded his artwork into sculpture and filmmaking in recent years. His first feature-length film, The Last Race, was premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah.

American filmmaker and visual artist Michael Dweck was born September 26, 1957. Dweck is best known for his narrative photography. His work “explores ongoing conflicts between identity and adaption in endangered social enclaves.” Dweck was the first living photographer ever to have a solo show at Sotheby’s in 2003. In 2012, he was also the first American photographer who had his work displayed in Cuba since 1960, when the United States embargo began. He lives in New York City, and Montauk in New York.

While studying at the Pratt Institute, Dweck was exposed to the creative workings of several prominent New York-based advertising agencies, including DDB and Young & Rubicam. Following graduation, seeking to escape the frustration of what he considered to be an uninspirational creative environment, Dweck set out in 1980 to found his own firm, Michael Dweck & Co. In 1992, Lori Campbell joined the firm as a partner to form Dweck & Campbell.

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The Last Race began in 2007 as a photography project. Riverhead Raceway reminded Dweck of a stock car track near his childhood home in Bellmore, where on Saturday nights he would sneak under the fence to watch the races. Dweck spent several years shooting still photographs of the race cars with an 8″ x 10″ camera and acquainting hmself with the racing community. As Dweck recounts, “I cut the cars apart, I sandblasted them, I photographed the components and then I realized that motion and the emotion of that place were more than still photography alone could capture. It needed to be told through film.” “Over that time,” he said, “I created a film in my head. I had a story; I had characters, I knew how they would act, the paths that their lives would take, and the images that they would be a part of.”

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Michael Ranked on the list of most popular Photographer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Michael Dweck celebrates birthday on September 26 of every year.

Dweck’s second book Mermaids was released in 2008 by Ditch Plains Press. Its photographs featured female nudes swimming under water, evoking the legend of the mermaid. As art editor Christopher Sweet described them in his introduction to the book, “Whether diving in the blue refractions of a swimming pool or suspended like a seraph in the cool, pellucid depths of a spring or emerging tentatively onto a rocky shore, Michael Dweck’s mermaids are lovely and aloof and bare of all raiment but for their beautiful manes and the elemental draperies that surround them. Water, light, and lens converge to capture in modern guise the elusive creature of myth.”