Alfred Charles Bonanno (1936-2012)
Photographer

Alfred Charles Bonanno was an idealist that took up the cause to protect all that is worth protecting. He was also an artist who recorded reality through the lens of a camera. Al was a self-employed photographer. He was proud of his friendship with Studs Terkel.
He worked as a stringer for Time Magazine in Chicago, Ill., from 1979 to the present. He was a free-lance photographer from 1978 to the present for Honor Light Photography in Eau Claire and Ladysmith. He also owned and operated DuBois Studio in Ladysmith from 1971-74. He was a staff photographer for Time-Life Newspapers in Wilmette, Ill., in 1970 He was an award-winning photographer. He donated six photographs to a silent auction at the Page Education Foundation in Minneapolis, Minn. His black and white exhibit of resident Mexican-Americans was displayed in the Pilsen Neighborhood on the west side of Chicago, Ill. His 67 slides from “Ojibwa Life Style” photographed on the reservation in northern Wisconsin was used for teaching at the International Center of Photography in New York, N.Y. One of his Native American photographs was included in the archives at the Archives of the University of Kentucky in Louisville, Kent.
Al placed in the top 5 percent in 1995 out of 28,000 entries and in 1994 out of 26,000 entries in the Photography Forum-Best of Photography Annual World Competition. He had 11 photographs included in the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives in Oak Park, Ill. He received the Grant from the Montana Arts Council for an exhibit at the Salish Kootena College in Pablo, Mont., and from the Wisconsin Humanities Council in Madison for the Ojibwa Life Style Project.
Al displayed an exhibit for the World Med International Health Care Congress in St. Paul, Minn., titled “A Starting Point” created for the Chileda Institute in La Crosse, a center for disabled children. His portraits were included in the book “Portraits of Hmong Elders” for the Regional Center for the Arts in La Crosse. He was the recipient for a news brochure for the New York Art Directors Merit Award in New York, N.Y. He displayed 51 photographs viewed by more than 3,000 people at the Chippewa Valley Museum. There, he also had 59 photographs representing the six Wisconsin Ojibwa tribes placed in the museum’s archives.
He was part of a one-man exhibit at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. He was also part of a joint exhibit of Native Americans with Dewitt Jones at the Winter Park Gallery at Winter Park, Colo. There, he was also a photographer for National Geographic. He was a featured artist in Transactions of Academy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for the Wisconsin Academy of Arts, Science and Letters in Madison.

Alfred Charles Bonanno (1936-2012)
Photographer

Alfred Charles Bonanno was an idealist that took up the cause to protect all that is worth protecting. He was also an artist who recorded reality through the lens of a camera. Al was a self-employed photographer. He was proud of his friendship with Studs Terkel.
He worked as a stringer for Time Magazine in Chicago, Ill., from 1979 to the present. He was a free-lance photographer from 1978 to the present for Honor Light Photography in Eau Claire and Ladysmith. He also owned and operated DuBois Studio in Ladysmith from 1971-74. He was a staff photographer for Time-Life Newspapers in Wilmette, Ill., in 1970 He was an award-winning photographer. He donated six photographs to a silent auction at the Page Education Foundation in Minneapolis, Minn. His black and white exhibit of resident Mexican-Americans was displayed in the Pilsen Neighborhood on the west side of Chicago, Ill. His 67 slides from “Ojibwa Life Style” photographed on the reservation in northern Wisconsin was used for teaching at the International Center of Photography in New York, N.Y. One of his Native American photographs was included in the archives at the Archives of the University of Kentucky in Louisville, Kent.
Al placed in the top 5 percent in 1995 out of 28,000 entries and in 1994 out of 26,000 entries in the Photography Forum-Best of Photography Annual World Competition. He had 11 photographs included in the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives in Oak Park, Ill. He received the Grant from the Montana Arts Council for an exhibit at the Salish Kootena College in Pablo, Mont., and from the Wisconsin Humanities Council in Madison for the Ojibwa Life Style Project.
Al displayed an exhibit for the World Med International Health Care Congress in St. Paul, Minn., titled “A Starting Point” created for the Chileda Institute in La Crosse, a center for disabled children. His portraits were included in the book “Portraits of Hmong Elders” for the Regional Center for the Arts in La Crosse. He was the recipient for a news brochure for the New York Art Directors Merit Award in New York, N.Y. He displayed 51 photographs viewed by more than 3,000 people at the Chippewa Valley Museum. There, he also had 59 photographs representing the six Wisconsin Ojibwa tribes placed in the museum’s archives.
He was part of a one-man exhibit at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. He was also part of a joint exhibit of Native Americans with Dewitt Jones at the Winter Park Gallery at Winter Park, Colo. There, he was also a photographer for National Geographic. He was a featured artist in Transactions of Academy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for the Wisconsin Academy of Arts, Science and Letters in Madison.

Alfred Charles Bonanno (1936-2012)
Photographer

Alfred Charles Bonanno was an idealist that took up the cause to protect all that is worth protecting. He was also an artist who recorded reality through the lens of a camera. Al was a self-employed photographer. He was proud of his friendship with Studs Terkel.
He worked as a stringer for Time Magazine in Chicago, Ill., from 1979 to the present. He was a free-lance photographer from 1978 to the present for Honor Light Photography in Eau Claire and Ladysmith. He also owned and operated DuBois Studio in Ladysmith from 1971-74. He was a staff photographer for Time-Life Newspapers in Wilmette, Ill., in 1970 He was an award-winning photographer. He donated six photographs to a silent auction at the Page Education Foundation in Minneapolis, Minn. His black and white exhibit of resident Mexican-Americans was displayed in the Pilsen Neighborhood on the west side of Chicago, Ill. His 67 slides from “Ojibwa Life Style” photographed on the reservation in northern Wisconsin was used for teaching at the International Center of Photography in New York, N.Y. One of his Native American photographs was included in the archives at the Archives of the University of Kentucky in Louisville, Kent.
Al placed in the top 5 percent in 1995 out of 28,000 entries and in 1994 out of 26,000 entries in the Photography Forum-Best of Photography Annual World Competition. He had 11 photographs included in the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives in Oak Park, Ill. He received the Grant from the Montana Arts Council for an exhibit at the Salish Kootena College in Pablo, Mont., and from the Wisconsin Humanities Council in Madison for the Ojibwa Life Style Project.
Al displayed an exhibit for the World Med International Health Care Congress in St. Paul, Minn., titled “A Starting Point” created for the Chileda Institute in La Crosse, a center for disabled children. His portraits were included in the book “Portraits of Hmong Elders” for the Regional Center for the Arts in La Crosse. He was the recipient for a news brochure for the New York Art Directors Merit Award in New York, N.Y. He displayed 51 photographs viewed by more than 3,000 people at the Chippewa Valley Museum. There, he also had 59 photographs representing the six Wisconsin Ojibwa tribes placed in the museum’s archives.
He was part of a one-man exhibit at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. He was also part of a joint exhibit of Native Americans with Dewitt Jones at the Winter Park Gallery at Winter Park, Colo. There, he was also a photographer for National Geographic. He was a featured artist in Transactions of Academy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for the Wisconsin Academy of Arts, Science and Letters in Madison.

Alfred Charles Bonanno (1936-2012)
Photographer

Alfred Charles Bonanno was an idealist that took up the cause to protect all that is worth protecting. He was also an artist who recorded reality through the lens of a camera. Al was a self-employed photographer. He was proud of his friendship with Studs Terkel.
He worked as a stringer for Time Magazine in Chicago, Ill., from 1979 to the present. He was a free-lance photographer from 1978 to the present for Honor Light Photography in Eau Claire and Ladysmith. He also owned and operated DuBois Studio in Ladysmith from 1971-74. He was a staff photographer for Time-Life Newspapers in Wilmette, Ill., in 1970 He was an award-winning photographer. He donated six photographs to a silent auction at the Page Education Foundation in Minneapolis, Minn. His black and white exhibit of resident Mexican-Americans was displayed in the Pilsen Neighborhood on the west side of Chicago, Ill. His 67 slides from “Ojibwa Life Style” photographed on the reservation in northern Wisconsin was used for teaching at the International Center of Photography in New York, N.Y. One of his Native American photographs was included in the archives at the Archives of the University of Kentucky in Louisville, Kent.
Al placed in the top 5 percent in 1995 out of 28,000 entries and in 1994 out of 26,000 entries in the Photography Forum-Best of Photography Annual World Competition. He had 11 photographs included in the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives in Oak Park, Ill. He received the Grant from the Montana Arts Council for an exhibit at the Salish Kootena College in Pablo, Mont., and from the Wisconsin Humanities Council in Madison for the Ojibwa Life Style Project.
Al displayed an exhibit for the World Med International Health Care Congress in St. Paul, Minn., titled “A Starting Point” created for the Chileda Institute in La Crosse, a center for disabled children. His portraits were included in the book “Portraits of Hmong Elders” for the Regional Center for the Arts in La Crosse. He was the recipient for a news brochure for the New York Art Directors Merit Award in New York, N.Y. He displayed 51 photographs viewed by more than 3,000 people at the Chippewa Valley Museum. There, he also had 59 photographs representing the six Wisconsin Ojibwa tribes placed in the museum’s archives.
He was part of a one-man exhibit at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. He was also part of a joint exhibit of Native Americans with Dewitt Jones at the Winter Park Gallery at Winter Park, Colo. There, he was also a photographer for National Geographic. He was a featured artist in Transactions of Academy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for the Wisconsin Academy of Arts, Science and Letters in Madison.