Dan Dion and related artists

Dan Dion earned his B.A. in philosophy from Santa Clara University, and this penchant for the pensive is reflected in both his portraits and his panoramas. Specializing in capturing the players in the performing arts, which for Dion includes musician...more

Dan Dion earned his B.A. in philosophy from Santa Clara University, and this penchant for the pensive is reflected in both his portraits and his panoramas. Specializing in capturing the players in the performing arts, which for Dion includes musicians, comedians and even the San Francisco Giants, he moved to San Francisco in 1992 and commenced a career which has come to include the roles of house photographer for the Bill Graham Presents Fillmore Auditorium and Punchline Comedy Clubs, assistant photographer for the Giant's 1993 season and to publication in magazines including Newsweek, Time, Spin and Rolling Stone. On the strength of his satirist portrait collection, Dion earned his M.F.A. from the Academy of Art College in San Francisco in 1998, and, in 2002, he mounted a permanent show of portraits at the Gotham Comedy Club in New York's Chelsea district....less