21 Facts About Michael Dweck

Michael Dweck was born on September 26,1957 and is an American visual artist and filmmaker.

Michael Dweck was born in Brooklyn in 1957 to David and Sydelle Michael Dweck.

Michael Dweck's father presented him with his first camera on the occasion of the 1964 New York World's Fair.

In July 2001, Michael Dweck closed the agency and left advertising to concentrate on photography.

Michael Dweck had been visiting Montauk since his second year of high school, beginning when he'd heard that the Rolling Stones were spending time there with Andy Warhol.

In March 2010, Michael Dweck filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against a New York-based clothing designer called Malibu Denim, alleging that they'd used Sonya, Poles in their advertisements for designer jeans, even including copies of the photo on the hang tag which accompanied their products.

Michael Dweck's work was presented at art fairs in Paris and Bologna.

Rather than use professional models, Michael Dweck turned to women with the experience needed to move comfortably and naturally in underwater environments, including friends from his native Long Island's East End as well as residents of the rural fishing village Aripeka, Florida.

For West Palm Beach's Canvas art fair in November 2015, Michael Dweck mounted several murals near the Nicole Henry Fine Art gallery.

The Miami New Times's Kyle Munzenrieder commented that "it's hard to tell if [Michael Dweck is] glamorizing the privilege or slyly exposing the hypocrisy of the myth of communist equality".

Later that evening, Alex Castro and Camilo Guevara headed upstairs under armed guard to view their own images as Michael Dweck had captured them.

From September 2017 to March 2018, Michael Dweck's work from Habana Libre appeared in Cuba IS, a multimedia exhibit exploring life in modern Cuba, at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Century City.

Recently, Michael Dweck has revisited themes from his first two bodies of work, The End and Mermaids, to create customized surfboards emblazoned with black-and-white silhouette images of mermaids.

Michael Dweck describes himself as a casual surfer, and the boards are ridable as well as works of art.

Michael Dweck spent several years shooting still photographs of the race cars with an 8" x 10" camera and acquainting himself with the racing community.

Originally tempted to accompany the racing scenes with rock music, Michael Dweck was instead drawn to classical music including the Dies Irae of Mozart's Requiem Mass in D minor.

Michael Dweck said that he used the classical music playing on his headphones to guide the composition of many of the shots.

Michael Dweck began exploring the possibility of a film about truffle hunting when visiting a small Piedmontese village where truffles are harvested from the surrounding woods.

Much of the film's dialog is in not standard Italian but Piedmontese Additionally, Michael Dweck discovered that the hunters communicate with their dogs using a set of terms which are neither Italian nor Piedmontese but are unique to their trade.

The Truffle Hunters continues a theme found throughout Michael Dweck's work, including his previous film The Last Race, of an endangered social enclave threatened by the forces of modernity.

Michael Dweck sought to create the atmosphere of what he called a "real-life fairytale" by shooting uninterrupted scenes from fixed vantage points, often filming only one scene a day.