The arc of Dennis Butler's professional career began with the study of modern and classical painting at the American College in Paris, France.  New York City, the center of art, theatre and finance, was his next stop where he attended Parsons School of Design. Shortly thereafter, agent Jim Grathwald discovered Dennis. Encouraged to leave school by his newly found success and recognition, he jumped into the professional world of design. This led to a series of successful art directing assignments for such prestigious companies as McCall's Patterns, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Estee Lauder.
     After working under Bev Ellis, Tony Devino and the great Victor Screbneski, Dennis pooled his resources and opened his photography studio on the upper East Side of New York. It wasn't long until Ford, Elite, Zoli, Click, Foster-Fell, and Wilhelmina talent agencies began using his formal skills to polish their clients' headshots & portfolios.
     He has since published a column in Details magazine interviewing innovative and creative personalities, pioneered work in the world of xerographic art for which he received a grant from the Xerox corporation, 

been nominated by American Photographer as one of the top ten up-and-coming fashion photographers. Dennis earned his college degree in  motion picture technology from the University of Central Florida. His advertising and editorial work has appeared in many national American magazines including GO, Elle, MGF, Emmy, Watermark, Global Travel, True Confessions, Pageantry and Interview.

     Dennis Butler has been working in the entertainment industry as an award-winning photographer for nearly two decades. He is the creative director of many  program books and works from coast-to-coast photographing entertainers, corporate executives, beauty queens and athletic competitors.  He travels with the National Photo Team on Beauty Tour 2003 sharing his editorial style and extensive experience in beauty and high fashion photography. In his free time, Dennis relaxes painting commissioned portraits of competition winners, cultural celebrities, and theatrical entertainers. 
      

     

     Dennis Butler is and always will be an American first and a photographer second. In Americanism - that is to say, the love of life, gregariousness, the artistic eye, diversity of mediums and interests, love of food and entertaining - he is strictly professional. It is only in photography and art that he continues to insist that he is a work in progress, and of the former his own self-analysis is 

"As a photographer, I'm always chasing my muse of light, looking to capture the beautiful moments that she decides to illuminate and share with mankind."
     There has been a good deal of discussion of late about what is called 'artistic photography'. It is an easy thing to give a picture the look of a painting. With clever retouching almost anything can be done to a modern computer file. It's now possible to get the flavor, spirit and poetic essence once reserved for adroit painters -- all on an ordinary picture. A photographer can only create true art when he works from a place of inspired devotion to the formalist principles of composition, balance, arrangement, lighting and an honest desire to abide by the truth that inheres in all subjects. 

     Dennis Butler's work enumerates these qualities. He is an American artist from New York who for many years has managed to impart to his work great technical mastery, a disarming honesty and a very considerable degree of beauty. There is nothing of the charlatan in Butler, or in his work; nothing of the poseur, nothing of the man who likes to dim, sugar coat or distort Life.

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