Bill Zulpo-Dane

Place: Beatrice

Born: 1938

Biography:

Bill Dane, also known as Bill Zulpo-Dane, is an American street photographer born in Beatrice, Nebraska in 1938. He pioneered a way to subsidize his public by using photographic postcards, mailing over 50,000 of his pictures as photo-postcards since 1969. In 2007, he shifted his method to offering his entire body of work on the internet. Dane studied Political Science and Art/Painting at the University of California, Berkeley, and worked with Diane Arbus and Lee Friedlander at Hampshire College in the summer of 1971. He was recognized by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation with Guggenheim Fellowships in 1973 and 1982, and received Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1976 and 1977. His photographs are held in several permanent public collections. Dane's method for making his photographs available shifted from mailing photo-postcards to offering his entire body of work on the internet.