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The unpublished Dan Winters: in his 23-year career, our most celebrated contributing photographer has captured all manner of luminaries--from Angelina Jolie and Bono to Lance Armstrong and the Dalai Lama--for myriad magazines. But many of his favorite portraits have never been printed. Here are ten of his unseen best.

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EVERY PHOTOGRAPHER IS LIMITED by certain constraints--the subject of a story, an art director's vision, a client's directives--so the images he produces are not truly his own. You might say, then, that his most genuine work, the work that best reveals the clarity of his eye, is that which he produces just for himself. In this spirit we approached longtime TEXAS MONTHLY contributor Dan Winters--a California native and Hill Country transplant whose portraits of marquee-name celebrities also appear in such publications as the New York Times Magazine, Esquire, and Rolling Stone-and gave him an assignment unlike the dozens of others he's completed for us since his haunting photo of a Huntsville prisoner graced our cover in August 1991: We asked him to sift through a career's worth of unpublished shots (last year he processed 250 rolls of film he'd accumulated over some...

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