Dick Durrance II

Dick Durrance II

Born in Seattle, Washington in 1942, Dick was raised in Aspen, Colorado. He studied at Phillips Academy Andover and Dartmouth College, where he majored in art. He served in the Department of Army Special Photographic Office in 1967 and 1968 documenting military activities in Southeast Asia.

In January 1969 he joined the National Geographic photographic staff.

His work won first place awards four times in thc National Press Photographers Association's Picture of the Year competition and, in 1972, he was named Photographer of the Year by the White House News Photographers Association. In September of 1976 he launched a career in corporate and advertising photography. His peers in the American Society of Media Photographers selected him as their Advertising Photographer of thc Year in 1987. In 1988 he released a book based upon his Vietnam images titled Where War Lives, a Farrar, Straus, Giroux publication. Photographs from the book have been shown at the Addison Gallery of American Art, the Hood Museum, the Aspen Art Museum, the 4th Triennale Internationale de la Photographie (Brussels), Holland Photo '89 (Amsterdam), the Kathleen Ewing Gallery, and the Robert Klein Gallery. In 1991 Dartmouth College awarded him their Presidential Medal for Outstanding Leadership and Achievement.