Joseph Dankowski
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Joseph Dankowski (September 2, 1932 - November 5, 2010) was an American photographer best known for his 50 print portfolio of “Manholes and Gutters” (1969-71).
His “Manholes and Gutters” are in the Museum of Modern Art in New York [1], The Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.[2], The Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick, ME, The Joy of Giving Something Collection [3] and private collections.
A resident of Shirley, ME, he was born in Camden, NJ on September 2, 1932 and began his artistic career as a painter and sculptor.
After moving to New York City in 1958, he took up photography, working mostly in black and white reportage style, influenced by Eugène Atget, Harry Callahan and Robert Frank. In 1971 he received one of the first National Endowment for the Arts grants to a photographer. [4]
He moved to Shirley, ME in 1974, where he continued to photograph, while working as a carpenter. His work in Maine focused on the portfolio “Fall in Black and White” and a sequence of Ice On The River photographs.