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]
- Merry Alpern[2]
- Diane Arbus[3][4]
- Eve Arnold[5]
- Bill Aron
- Ellen Auerbach[2][4]
- Richard Avedon[6]
- Sid Avery[7]
- Lillian Bassman[8]
- Lucienne Bloch[7]
- Erwin Blumenfeld[9]
- Margaret Bourke-White[7]
- Josef Breitenbach[7]
- Robert Capa[10]
- Solomon Nunes Carvalho[7]
- Lynne Cohen[2]
- Ted Croner[11]
- Judy Dater[4]
- Bruce Davidson[11][1]
- Alfred Eisenstaedt[12]
- Elliot Erwitt[7]
- Louis Faurer[11]
- Nat Fein[13]
- Andreas Feininger[7]
- Barry Feinstein[14]
- Trude Fleischmann[15]
- Robert Frank[16][1]
- Leonard Freed[11]
- Lee Friedlander[7]
- Nan Goldin[17]
- Milton H. Greene[11]
- Lauren Greenfield[2]
- Sid Grossman[18]
- Philippe Halsman[19]
- Don Hunstein[14]
- Lotte Jacobi[20]
- André Kertèsz[21]
- William Klein[22]
- Max Kozloff[23]
- Jill Krementz[7]
- Gillian Laub[24]
- Alma Lavenson[2]
- Annie Leibovitz[25]
- Saul Leiter[11]
- Rebecca Lepkoff[4]
- Leon Levinstein[11]
- Helen Levitt[26][2]
- Danny Lyon[1]
- Linda McCartney[27]
- Vivian Maier[7]
- Mary Ellen Mark[28]
- Jeff Mermelstein[11]
- Joel Meyerowitz[11]
- Carl Mydans[11]
- Arnold Newman[29]
- Arthur Ollman[30]
- Ruth Orkin[2][4]
- Irving Penn[7]
- Man Ray[31]
- Ann Rosener[7]
- Joe Rosenthal[32]
- Louise Rosskam[7]
- Arthur Rothstein[11]
- Eva Rubinstein[7]
- Steve Schapiro[1]
- Herb Scharfman
- Jerry Schatzberg[14]
- Paul Schutzer[33]
- David Seymour[34]
- Ben Shahn[11]
- Art Shay[1]
- Cindy Sherman[11]
- Stephen Shore[35]
- Julius Shulman[36]
- Aaron Siskind[37]
- Rosalind Fox Solomon[2]
- Bert Stern[7]
- Phil Stern[38]
- Marcel Sternberger[39]
- Joel Sternfeld[11]
- Alfred Stieglitz[40]
- Ezra Stoller[11]
- Lou Stoumen[23]
- Paul Strand[41]
- Stanley Tretick[42]
- Doris Ulmann[43][4]
- Roman Vishniac[7]
- Weegee (real name Arthur Felig) [44]
- Dan Weiner[11]
- Garry Winogrand[45]
- Penny Wolin[46]
Footnotes
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f [1] "Meet the Jewish Photographers Who Helped Shape the Image of the Civil Rights Movement"
- ^ a b c d e f g h [2] Jewish Women's Archive
- ^ [3] [4]"slight Jewish girl from a well-to-do Park Avenue family..."
- ^ a b c d e f "Photographers in the United States". Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved 2023-05-02.
- ^ [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."
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p "Jewish Photographers genealogy project". geni_family_tree. Retrieved 2023-05-02.
- ^ [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
- ^ Capa was born Endre Ernő Friedmann to the Jewish family of Júlia (née Berkovits) and Dezső Friedmann in Budapest, Austria-Hungary, on October 22, 1913. Kershaw, Alex. Blood and Champagne: The Life and Times of Robert Capa, Macmillan (2002) ISBN 978-0-306-81356-6
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p [9] "Jews and Photography" Commentary Magazine
- ^ [10] [11]
- ^ Nat Fein, Jewish Virtual Library
- ^ a b c Kaufman, David (2012). Jewhooing the Sixties. UPNE. p. 195. ISBN 9781611683158. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
- ^ [12] Jewish Women's Archive
- ^ [13] "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."
- ^ [14] "Jewish-American women photographers... including Nan Goldin..."
- ^ [15] The Jewish Museum
- ^ "Action at a Distance: Einstein as Activist". Archived from the original on 2006-08-29. Retrieved 2006-05-18. "Einstein asks Nathan to rely on his connections to help Philippe Halsman, a Jewish man wrongly convicted..."
- ^ "Jacobi, Lotte".
- ^ https://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Kert%C3%A9sz]
- ^ [16] "I was a very clumsy Jewish kid."
- ^ a b [17] "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
- ^ [18] "Helen Levitt, Ben Shahn, Lisette Model -- are or were Jewish"
- ^ Daily Dish (April 12, 2004) "Madonna's Financial Request Upset McCartney", SF Gate.
- ^ [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
- ^ 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
- ^ "Paul Schutzer".
- ^ "Close Enough: Photography by David Seymour (Chim)". Archived from the original on 2006-04-18. Retrieved 2006-05-18. "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..."
- ^ "Commentary Magazine - Harlem Photographs: 1932-1940, by Aaron Siskind". Archived from the original on 2005-04-21. Retrieved 2006-05-18. "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
- ^ "Art |". Archived from the original on 2006-05-02. Retrieved 2006-05-18. "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.