List of Jewish American photographers
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This is a list of notable Jewish American photographers. For other notable Jewish Americans, see List of Jewish Americans.'
- Diane Arbus[1]
- Richard Avedon[2]
- Robert Capa[3]
- Alfred Eisenstaedt[4]
- Robert Frank[5]
- Nan Goldin[6]
- Philippe Halsman[7]
- William Klein[8]
- Annie Leibovitz[9]
- Helen Levitt[10]
- Linda McCartney[11]
- Man Ray[12]
- Joe Rosenthal[13]
- David Seymour[14]
- Julius Shulman[15]
- Aaron Siskind[16]
- Alfred Stieglitz[17]
- Paul Strand[18]
- Stanley Tretick[19]
- Weegee[20]
- Garry Winogrand[21]
Footnotes[edit]
- ^ [1] [2]"slight Jewish girl from a well-to-do Park Avenue family..."
- ^ [3] "Each was Jewish, each came from successful New York mercantile families, and each was fiercely devoted to the work at hand."
- ^ [4] "Founding members Robert Capa and David Seymour were themselves Jewish émigrés from central Europe..."
- ^ [5] [6]
- ^ [7] "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."
- ^ [8] "Jewish-American women photographers... including Nan Goldin..."
- ^ [9] "Einstein asks Nathan to rely on his connections to help Philippe Halsman, a Jewish man wrongly convicted..."
- ^ [10] "I was a very clumsy Jewish kid."
- ^ Biographies of Jewish Women Table of Contents
- ^ [11] "Helen Levitt, Ben Shahn, Lisette Model -- are or were Jewish"
- ^ [12] "Her mother, the late Linda McCartney, was Jewish and friends say McCartney was "very open" to joining the alternative religion."
- ^ Religion of Man Ray, famous Jewish American artist
- ^ Joe Rosenthal
- ^ [13] "his name to David Robert Seymour to make himself invisible as a Jewish photographer"
- ^ [14] "Shulman was born to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents in Brooklyn, New York..."
- ^ [15] "To Jewish socialists like Siskind, black people were to be seen only as potential allies in the..."
- ^ Jewish Art Education: Myrna Teck
- ^ [16] "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...."
- ^ [17] "Weegee was a Ukrainian-Jewish immigrant whose family landed on New York’s Lower East Side in 1910."
- ^ [18] "His pictures represent a viewpoint on society, one that is worldy and also often seen with humour - as one might expect from a Jewish New-Yorker. They reflect the troubled period he lived through."