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Joe McNally
Joe McNally is an internationally acclaimed American photographer and long-time photojournalist. From 1994 until 1998, he was LIFE magazine's staff photographer, the first one in 23 years.
His most well known series is the "Faces of Ground Zero - Portraits of the Heroes of September 11th", a collection of 246 Giant Polaroid portraits shot in the Moby c Studio near Ground Zero in a three-week period shortly after 9/11. A large group of these historic, compelling life-size (9' x 4') photos were exhibited in seven cities in 2002, seen by almost a million people. The sale of 55,000 copies of the exhibit book, printed by LIFE, raised over $2 million for the 9/11-relief effort. This collection is considered by many museum and art professionals to be the most significant artistic endeavor to evolve to date from the 9/11 tragedy.
Some of McNally's other renowned photographic series include: "The Future of Flying", cover & 32-page story, National Geographic Magazine, December 2003. The story, on the future of aviation and the first all digital shoot for the magazine, commemorated the centennial observance of the Wright Brothers' flight. This issue was a National Magazine Award Finalist and the magazine's best-selling issue ever.
"The Bolshoi Ballet" - This LIFE series of Bolshoi Ballet images resulted in the creation of one of McNally's most well known images, "Ballerina on the Rooftop."
"Olympic Nude Series" - A highly touted series of black & white and color photos depicting the United States 1996 Olympic team as a series of nude figure studies, published in LIFE. The only time in the history of LIFE the magazine ran 4 separate covers in one month.
As a commemorative, McNally did a photo diary of New York City Opera's historic first tour to Japan as part of the World Expo 2005. An exhibit of this collection was featured at Lincoln Center.
McNally is known worldwide for his ability to produce technically and logistically complex assignments with expert use of color and light. He conducts numerous workshops around the world as part of his teaching activities, and is the recipient of numerous awards, including the prestigious Alfred Eisenstadt Award for outstanding magazine photography, as well as Pictures of the Year, and World Press Photo Foundation Award (awarded first place in Portraits in 1997), and numerous awards from Communication Arts. McNally has been selected as one of ten photographers worldwide to work on promotion of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
Learn more at www.joemcnally.com.
Read about Joe McNally's "How did he shoot that?" Shooting at the top of the Empire State Building
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