As a photojournalist, Henri Dauman has roamed the world, for over forty-five years, documenting historical events and personalities for leading magazines and many foreign periodicals and books. Working with LIFE Magazine as a feature photographer, he covered diverse subjects, from John and Jackie Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Dwight Eisenhower, Andy Warhol to Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley, at telling moments in their lives. By the mid-60's, Dauman began to work with other publishers as well, becoming a major contributor to The New York Times, Newsweek, Forbes, Smithsonian, Town & Country and New York Magazine.

Mr. Dauman is a former Director and Vice-President of Cinergy Communications Corporation, a diversified communications company. From 1970 to 1976, he was in charge of acquisitions, development and marketing of film and television properties. He created innovative applications for audio/visual software products in travel and medical fields and was also responsible for the leasing and marketing of the company's editing equipment. While with Cinergy, Dauman produced, directed and photographed a variety of productions for PBS, BBC, Granada and ORTF.

Through Dauman Pictures, he has represented such leading photographers as Brassaï, Lucien Aigner, Ernst Haas, Douglas Kirkland, Bruno Zehnder's Penguins, Alfred Gescheidt and The Wertheimer Collection of Elvis '56, for the worldwide licensing, production and distribution of books, posters, notecards, postcards, calendars, puzzles, magnets, clocks, watches, T-shirts, mugs, etc., and also organized and curated photo exhibitions.

Dauman has received numerous awards including the 1967 Picture of the Year Award, for portraits and personalities, and a Communications Art Magazine Award for Excellence. Professional articles concerned with his work have appeared in 35mm Photography, Photo, The Photography Catalog, Variety, The New York Times and Print Magazine.