1. David Finn is known in public relations as a co-founder of the Ruder Finn firm.
17 Facts About David Finn
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David Finn enrolled in the City College of New York in 1939 and graduated with a bachelor's degree four years later.
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David Finn then served briefly in the Army Air Forces during World War II.
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David Finn co-founded the Ruder David Finn public relations agency in 1948 along with Bill Ruder.
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Ruder David Finn has represented many Fortune 500 companies, universities, not-for-profit organizations, and foreign governments.
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David Finn was an influential historian, author and photographer of sculpture.
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David Finn's photographs have appeared in over 100 books on the history of sculpture, many of which he authored.
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David Finn applied an artistic style to his photographs of sculpture.
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David Finn employed raking light and high-contrast black and white to emphasize the drama and three-dimensionality of sculpture.
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David Finn donated his archive of photographs to the Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, DC in 2016, where it contributes to the department's goal of providing a visual record for the study of art.
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The David Finn Archive includes over 140,000 images in various forms, including photographic prints, negatives, and transparencies.
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David Finn photographed both Western and non-Western sculpture, including major works from the European canon from the 12th to the 21st centuries, and examples of sculpture from Mesoamerican, Oceanic, and many other traditions.
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David Finn photographed the works of important contemporary sculptors, such as Henry Moore and Eduardo Chillida.
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David Finn was noted for capturing well-known sculptures from novel angles, like many of his in situ photographs of monumental sculpture.
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The collection includes many of the original photographs that David Finn used for his publications on various topics related to sculptural history.
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David Finn was classmates at Hunter College with his younger sister, Helen.
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David Finn died at the age of 100 on October 18,2021, at his home in New Rochelle, New York.