List of Jewish American photographers
This is a list of notable Jewish American photographers. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans.
- Bob Adelman[1]
- Dianna Agron[2][3]
- Merry Alpern[4]
- Diane Arbus[5]
- Eve Arnold[6]
- Ellen Auerbach[4]
- Richard Avedon[7]
- Lillian Bassman[8]
- Erwin Blumenfeld[9]
- Lynne Cohen[4]
- Ted Croner[10]
- Bruce Davidson[10][1]
- Alfred Eisenstaedt[11]
- Louis Faurer[10]
- Nat Fein[12]
- Barry Feinstein[13]
- Trude Fleischmann[14]
- Robert Frank[15][1]
- Leonard Freed[10]
- Nan Goldin[16]
- Milton H. Greene[10]
- Lauren Greenfield[4]
- Sid Grossman[17]
- Philippe Halsman[18]
- Don Hunstein[13]
- Lotte Jacobi[19]
- William Klein[20]
- Max Kozloff[21]
- Gillian Laub[22]
- Alma Lavenson[4]
- Annie Leibovitz[23]
- Saul Leiter[10]
- Leon Levinstein[10]
- Helen Levitt[24][4]
- Danny Lyon[1]
- Linda McCartney[25]
- Mary Ellen Mark[26]
- Jeff Mermelstein[10]
- Joel Meyerowitz[10]
- Lisette Model[4]
- Carl Mydans[10]
- Arnold Newman[27]
- Helmut Newton[28]
- Arthur Ollman[29]
- Ruth Orkin[4]
- Man Ray[30]
- Joe Rosenthal[31]
- Arthur Rothstein[10]
- Steve Schapiro[1]
- Jerry Schatzberg[13]
- Paul Schutzer[32]
- David Seymour[33]
- Ben Shahn[10]
- Art Shay[1]
- Cindy Sherman[10]
- Stephen Shore[34]
- Julius Shulman[35]
- Aaron Siskind[36]
- Rosalind Fox Solomon[4]
- Phil Stern[37]
- Marcel Sternberger[38]
- Joel Sternfeld[10]
- Alfred Stieglitz[39]
- Ezra Stoller[10]
- Lou Stoumen[21]
- Paul Strand[40]
- Stanley Tretick[41]
- Doris Ulmann[42]
- Weegee[43]
- Dan Weiner[10]
- Garry Winogrand[44]
- Penny Wolin[45]
Footnotes[]
- ^ a b c d e f [1] "Meet the Jewish Photographers Who Helped Shape the Image of the Civil Rights Movement"
- ^ Radish, Christina (February 4, 2011). "Dianna Agron Interview I AM NUMBER FOUR; Plus an Update on the GLEE Super Bowl Episode". Collider. Archived from the original on January 5, 2020. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
- ^ "Galore". Galore. Archived from the original on December 19, 2014. Retrieved April 6, 2015.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i [2] Jewish Women's Archive
- ^ [3] [4]"slight Jewish girl from a well-to-do Park Avenue family..."
- ^ [5]"Arnold was born in Philadelphia to Russian immigrants (her father, William Cohen, was a rabbi)..."
- ^ [6] "Each was Jewish, each came from successful New York mercantile families, and each was fiercely devoted to the work at hand."
- ^ [7] Bassman grew up in Brooklyn, NY, as a product of Jewish immigrants...
- ^ [8]"He was born into a middle-class Jewish family in Berlin..." The Telegraph, 18 MAY 2013
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p [9] "Jews and Photography" Commentary Magazine
- ^ [10] [11]
- ^ [https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/nat-fein> Jewish Virtual Library
- ^ a b c Kaufman, David (2012). Jewhooing the Sixties. UPNE. p. 195. ISBN 9781611683158. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
- ^ > Jewish Women's Archive
- ^ [12] "It was in this capricious environment that Frank -- a Swiss born, heavily-accented Jewish photographer, who immigrated to America soon after World War II to pursue a fashion career at "Harper’s Bazaar" -- began his pan-American exploration."
- ^ [13] "Jewish-American women photographers... including Nan Goldin..."
- ^ [14] The Jewish Museum
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2006-08-29. Retrieved 2006-05-18.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "Einstein asks Nathan to rely on his connections to help Philippe Halsman, a Jewish man wrongly convicted..."
- ^ https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jacobi-lotte[bare URL]
- ^ [15] "I was a very clumsy Jewish kid."
- ^ a b [16] "Do Jewish Photographers See the World Through a Different Lens?"
- ^ "A Conversation With Gillian Laub." Albert, Elisa. www.tabletmag.com The Tablet. Published October 8, 2015. Accessed February 24, 2021.
- ^ Biographies of Jewish Women Table of Contents
- ^ [17] "Helen Levitt, Ben Shahn, Lisette Model -- are or were Jewish"
- ^ [18] "Her mother, the late Linda McCartney, was Jewish and friends say McCartney was "very open" to joining the alternative religion."
- ^ [19] Jewish Virtual Library
- ^ [20]"Arnold Newman (1918–2006) in New York City to a relatively poor family of second-generation Jewish immigrants." Contemporary Jewish Museum
- ^ Lindsay Baker (May 2001). "Helmut Newton: a perverse romantic". The Guardian. Retrieved 2019-05-03.
Being Jewish, the teenage Helmut and his parents fled Germany in 1938
- ^ Schinto, Jeanne (3 May 2001). "San Diego's MOPA and its indefatigable Arthur Ollman". San Diego Reader. San Diego Reader. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
- ^ Religion of Man Ray, famous Jewish American artist
- ^ Joe Rosenthal
- ^ https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/paul-schutzer[bare URL]
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2006-04-18. Retrieved 2006-05-18.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "his name to David Robert Seymour to make himself invisible as a Jewish photographer"
- ^ Ben Crair (October 2013). "Stephen Shore Photography: American Surfaces to Uncommon Places". The New Republic. Retrieved 2019-05-03.
Shore was born in New York City in 1947, the sole son of Jewish parents who ran a handbag company.
- ^ [21] "Shulman was born to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents in Brooklyn, New York..."
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2005-04-21. Retrieved 2006-05-18.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "To Jewish socialists like Siskind, black people were to be seen only as potential allies in the..."
- ^ McFadden, Robert D. (2014-12-15). "Phil Stern, Who Made Candid Images of War and Hollywood, Dies at 95". New York Times. Retrieved 2017-12-06.
- ^ Marcel Sternberger Collection - Jewish Identity
- ^ Jewish Art Education: Myrna Teck
- ^ [22] "Strand, a Jewish kid raised in a hothouse milieu of social and esthetic..."
- ^ Kitty Kelley, Capturing Camelot, p. 4: "his grandfather was a rabbi who read him the Torah every day...."
- ^ [23] "second daughter of Reform Jewish parents" Jewish Women's Archive
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2006-05-02. Retrieved 2006-05-18.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "Weegee was a Ukrainian-Jewish immigrant whose family landed on New York's Lower East Side in 1910."
- ^ [24] "His pictures represent a viewpoint on society, one that is worldly and also often seen with humour - as one might expect from a Jewish New-Yorker. They reflect the troubled period he lived through."
- ^ Sarah Booth Conroy (August 1992). "Kosher Cowboys: The Jews of Wyoming". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2019-05-03.
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