Dave Jordano (1948 – present) is an American commercial and fine art photographer who lives and works in Chicago.
Jordano was born in 1948 in Detroit, Michigan. He attended the College for Creative Studies and received his BFA in photography in 1974. Shortly after this Jordano moved to Chicago, and in 1977 he started a commercial photography business on Wells Street in Chicago's Old Town neighborhood. As a commercial photographer Jordano worked w...
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Dave Jordano (1948 – present) is an American commercial and fine art photographer who lives and works in Chicago.
Jordano was born in 1948 in Detroit, Michigan. He attended the College for Creative Studies and received his BFA in photography in 1974. Shortly after this Jordano moved to Chicago, and in 1977 he started a commercial photography business on Wells Street in Chicago's Old Town neighborhood. As a commercial photographer Jordano worked with many large companies such as Crate & Barrel, Starbucks, Nestle, Sears, McDonald's, General Mills, Kraft, Kitchen Aid, Oscar Mayer, and Kellogg's.
Jordano has been actively producing fine art photography since 2001, when he began work on a body of work titled Chicago Bridge Project.. This project is made up of black and white photographs of bridges and other industrial structures in and around Chicago.
From 2002-2003 Jordano turned his focus from bridges and industry in Chicago to the landscape and inhabitants of Marktown neighborhood in...
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