Bill Binzen was, as well as a photographer, an author, an artist, and an art director. On these pages you can learn more about his diverse endeavors.
 
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More about Bill Binzen |
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On Instagram, previously unseen New York photos by Bill Binzen from the mid-1960s |
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Posters and notecards for sale on Etsy - learn more / go straight to Etsy |
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Books by Bill Binzen |
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A reading of Little Will the Bugle Boy (video) |
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Punch and Jonathan, a short film |
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A reading of Carmen (video) |
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The Adman: creating ad layouts in the 1950s at Ogilvy & Mather |
Carmen, a book by Bill Binzen
January 09, 2022
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Carmen, recently arrived in New York City from Puerto Rico, makes an unexpected friend. Published in 1969. A reading of the children's book by Bill Binzen illustrated with black-and-white photos.
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Postcards and notecards for sale on Etsy
May 01, 2021
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Visit etsy.com/shop/BillBinzenEditions to buy posters and notecards originally sold in the 1990s/early 2000s and now available again!
Listings include:
"The Yellow Canoe" on a lake, photo taken in Northwest Connecticut, 1970s, in a fine poster produced in the 1990s. Poster is 28.75" tall by 22" wide; actual image is 14 x 19".
"The Berkshires...
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The Adman: creating ad layouts in the 1950s
April 04, 2021
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Back by popular demand, see this revived and doubly-vintage 1990s project, in its original HTML 1.0 glory: " Advertising in the 1950s: A personal history of an advertising career as told by Bill Binzen ". Before there was Madmen, there was this - Bill Binzen's Madison Avenue insider tale of creating ad campaigns and layouts at Ogilvy & Mather, wher...
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Punch and Jonathan, a short film by Bill Binzen
January 27, 2021
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Follow the adventures of young Jonathan as he rescues the puppet Punch, star of the seaside Punch and Judy show. Punch and Jonathan, a short film from 1966 by Bill Binzen was filmed in charmingly scenic Swanage, Dorset, England.
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A reading of Little Will the Bugle Boy by Bill Binzen
November 26, 2020
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Little Will the Bugle Boy was the first of 15 books published by Bill Binzen, in 1963, and his only published books featuring illustrations (all the rest used photographs). The Binzen family is making it available in celebration of the author, who died in 2010 at the age of 92. Digitized creative content tends to earn little for its creators. We ar...
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Can you identify this Manhattan skyscraper?
March 28, 2020
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This photo montage, or "double" as Bill called them - literally two slides sandwiched together - includes a view looking up at a Manhattan skyscraper, taken in the early 1970s. The montage itself was used in various contexts in the 1970s, like this Harper's cover from March, 1980. I've been wondering, can anyone identify the building? Please let me...
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Books by Bill Binzen
March 27, 2020
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Bill Binzen published 16 books between 1963 and 1989. Most were children's books; all of them featured his photographs, except Little Will the Bugle Boy, which he illustrated. Look at any collection of children's books and you'll realize that such extensive photo-illustration is quite unusual in the genre.
Links are to Internet Archive.
Photogr...
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Rough transcript on Instagram: Previously unseen New York photos by Bill Binzen from the mid-1960s
March 18, 2020
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See more at instagram.com/billbinzen … In 1968, Grossman Publishers published a book of Bill Binzen’s photographs called Tenth Street, documenting life on one street in lower Manhattan in the 1960s. Bill left many other photographs from that time. Recently, I have been scanning the contact sheets. While properly handled digital renderings from the...
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More about Bill Binzen
July 24, 2018
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Bill Binzen (1918-2010) was a professional photographer active mainly from the 1950s to the 1990s, and author of more than a dozen children's books.
Bill Binzen was a “man of parts” (as he might have put it) whose varied and interesting life experiences – from prep school student to cowboy, from pilot to children’s book author – combined with a wh...
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