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]
- Alfred Eisenstaedt[3]
- Robert Frank[4]
- Nan Goldin[5]
- Milton Goldstein (photographer)
- Philippe Halsman[6]
- William Klein[7]
- Annie Leibovitz[8]
- Helen Levitt[9]
- Linda McCartney[10]
- Man Ray[11]
- Joe Rosenthal[12]
- David Seymour[13]
- Julius Shulman[14]
- Aaron Siskind[15]
- Alfred Stieglitz[16]
- Paul Strand[17]
- Stanley Tretick[18]
- Weegee[19]
- Garry Winogrand[20]
Footnotes
- ↑ [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] [5]
- ↑ [6] "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."
- ↑ [7] "Jewish-American women photographers... including Nan Goldin..."
- ↑ [8] "Einstein asks Nathan to rely on his connections to help Philippe Halsman, a Jewish man wrongly convicted..."
- ↑ [9] "I was a very clumsy Jewish kid."
- ↑ Biographies of Jewish Women Table of Contents
- ↑ [10] "Helen Levitt, Ben Shahn, Lisette Model -- are or were Jewish"
- ↑ [11] "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
- ↑ [12] "his name to David Robert Seymour to make himself invisible as a Jewish photographer"
- ↑ [13] "Shulman was born to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents in Brooklyn, New York..."
- ↑ [14] "To Jewish socialists like Siskind, black people were to be seen only as potential allies in the..."
- ↑ Jewish Art Education: Myrna Teck
- ↑ [15] "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...."
- ↑ [16] "Weegee was a Ukrainian-Jewish immigrant whose family landed on New York’s Lower East Side in 1910."
- ↑ [17] "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."
