Dan Weiner was an American photojournalist, working largely for Fortune

Fortune (magazine)

Fortune is a global business magazine published by Time Inc. Founded by Henry Luce in 1930, the publishing business, consisting of Time, Life, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated, grew to become Time Warner. In turn, AOL grew as it acquired Time Warner in 2000 when Time Warner was the world's largest...

magazine. Weiner specialized in photographs of America at work.

Biography

Weiner was born in New York City in 1919. He studied painting at the Art Students League and the Pratt Institute

Pratt Institute

Pratt Institute is a private art college in New York City located in Brooklyn, New York, with satellite campuses in Manhattan and Utica. Pratt is one of the leading undergraduate art schools in the United States and offers programs in Architecture, Graphic Design, History of Art and Design,...

, and eventually turned to photography, becoming a member of the Photo League.

Weiner served in the Army Air Force during World War II, and became a professional photojournalist after the war.

Death

Weiner died in 1959 in a plane crash in Kentucky; the plane, piloted by the subject of one of his stories, collided with the side of a mountain during a freak snowstorm.