Penny Wolin

Quick Facts

Full Name	Penny Wolin
Occupation	Photographer
Date Of Birth	Jun 5, 1953(1953-06-05)
Age	71
Birthplace	Wyoming
Country	United States
Horoscope	Gemini

Penny Wolin Biography

Penny Wolin is one of the most popular and richest Photographer who was born on June 5, 1953 in Wyoming, United States. An American portrait photographer and visual anthropologist well-known for her conceptual and documentary photos.

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In 1975, while still at Art Center College of Design, Wolin created Guest Register, an important body of work consisting of 32 photographs with excerpted interviews that documented the residents of each room in the St. Francis Hotel in Hollywood, California. The hotel was located on the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Western Avenue and sheltered a range of people that stayed there anywhere from one night to thirty years. Their connection to one another was simply that they had come to Hollywood to pursue a dream. This opus piece set up a working style of text and image and brought her to the attention of a number of graphic designers, museums and collectors. At that time, Bob Cato at A&M Records commissioned Wolin to photograph the rock group The Band; Lloyd Ziff, Art Director of New West magazine in Los Angeles, commissioned her to photograph Ansel Adams and George Burns; Los Angeles County Museum of Art invited her to participate in a group exhibition; and Marvin Israel, a highly regarded graphic designer working in New York, began designing Guest Register for publication by Aperture Books. Aperture subsequently withdrew from the publication and the work remains unpublished.

In 1978, Wolin was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts major survey grant to complete Jackalopes, Cowboys and Coalmines: A Photographic Survey of Wyoming. Because of Wyoming’s mineral and oil-rich natural resources, the state’s history had been one of a boom or bust economy and culture. A national energy crisis made for a huge energy boom in Wolin’s native state. This energy boom brought a final “Americanization” to the rural towns that sparsely dotted the least populated state in the union. Shopping malls and fast food outlets arrived; local downtown businesses closed, and the existing ranch economy was in turmoil. A worker’s wage to tend cattle was no match for the higher wages being paid to work in an open pit coal mine or a drilling rig. Traveling during each season throughout Wyoming, Wolin photographed and interviewed the native and newly arriving residents, ranging from cowboys to oilfield roughnecks to elected officials. The resulting work became a traveling exhibition that toured Wyoming as sponsored by then Governor Ed Herschler. The photographs and text are now held in the permanent collection of the Wyoming State Museum and the Smithsonian Institution, American Art Museum.

She was the eldest out of 5 children who were born to an Conservadox Jewish household.

Penny Wolin Net Worth

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

She attended her school, the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California and at the University of California, Los Angeles.

She was awarded 2 grants from National Endowment for the Humanities and one grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Penny Wolin (born June 5, 1953), also known as Penny Diane Wolin and Penny Wolin-Semple, is an American portrait photographer and a visual anthropologist. She has exhibited solo at the Smithsonian Institution and is the recipient of two grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and one grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her work is held in the permanent collections of such institutions as the Layton Art Collection at the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the New York Public Library and the American Art Museum, administered by the Smithsonian Institution. Known for her documentary and conceptual photographs, she has completed commissions for major corporations, national magazines and private collectors. For over 30 years, she has used photographic portraiture with oral interviews to research Jewish civilization in America.

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Penny Ranked on the list of most popular Photographer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Penny Wolin celebrates birthday on June 5 of every year.