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DAN WINTERS: STAR WARS, PRESENTED BY WIRED: AN EXCLUSIVE PHOTO EXHIBIT ON DISPLAY THIS MONTH AT THE CONDE NAST GALLERY AT 1 WORLD TRADE CENTER
In honor of Star Wars: The Force Awakens opening in theaters later this month, WIRED is hosting a private Star Wars photo exhibition, featuring the work of award-winning photographer Dan Winters. WIRED editor in chief Scott Dadich, head of design Billy Sorrentino, and photo director Anna Alexander curated the gallery, which is running through January 8, 2016 at The Condé Nast Gallery at One World Trade Center.
WIRED chief photographer Dan Winters has photographed some of the most memorable Star Wars props and miniatures from the Lucasfilm archive, located on the grounds of the Skywalker Ranch in California. “For me, these photographs document a beginning of an end, as digital effects began to take over and the miniature has become all but extinct,” says Winters.
Originating from a series shot for WIRED’s June 2015 issue—celebrating forty years George Lucas’s special effects studio: Industrial Light and Music—the photo exhibit pays homage to miniature models used in Star Wars. Computer generated effects have replaced models and set design in contemporary cinema, but miniatures were instrumental in those films to transport viewers to a galaxy far, far away.
Author: Len Cline
Len Cline has been a fan of Star Wars since he saw a pirated “A New Hope” with a TV dinner when he was around 3 (He only remembers the Tantive 4 battle), he was in his “Primary Star Wars Introduction Age” (PSWIA for short) (aka. 7 years) when “Revenge of the Sith” came out. Len fell out of the active Star Wars fandom for a few years and explored the majority of science fiction eras (except for the 90’s , which is a big deal (Except for Star Trek) until he was brought back through the Star Wars podcasting community. Len loves to read science fiction (Asimov being his favourite writer) and also enjoys the classics (Dostoyevsky anyone?). He loves all things philosophy (Cogito ergo sum!), politics (De Toqueville and Machiavelli!), and poetry (Mathew Arnold and T.S. Eliot for the win!). He is also an anglophile. Len’s worldview is colored by many things in his life: He’s a devout Catholic and holds his beliefs high, as well as believing that morality and personal responsibility are paramount. Len hopes to move to Europe to attend college for philosophy and/or other social sciences. He then aims to put his studies to good use for the world (hopefully just like Luke Skywalker!).