List of Jewish American photographers
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This is a list of famous Jewish American photographers. For other famous Jewish Americans, see List of Jewish Americans.'
- Diane Arbus[1]
- Eve Arnold, photojournalist
- Richard Avedon[2]
- Margaret Bourke-White[3]
- Cornell Capa
- Robert Capa[4]
- Alfred Eisenstaedt[5]
- Elliott Erwitt, photographer (half Jewish)
- Robert Frank[6]
- Lee Friedlander
- Nan Goldin[7]
- Philippe Halsman[8]
- André Kertész
- William Klein[9]
- Annie Leibovitz[10]
- Helen Levitt[11]
- Linda McCartney[12]
- Arnold Newman
- Irving Penn
- Man Ray[13]
- Herb Ritts
- Joe Rosenthal[14]
- Arthur Rothstein
- David Seymour[15]
- Cindy Sherman[16]
- Aaron Siskind[17]
- Alfred Stieglitz[18]
- Paul Strand[19]
- Doris Ulmann
- Weegee[20]
- Charlie White
- Garry Winogrand[21]
[edit] 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."
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- ^ [5] "Founding members Robert Capa and David Seymour were themselves Jewish émigrés from central Europe..."
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- ^ [8] "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."
- ^ [9] "Jewish-American women photographers... including Nan Goldin..."
- ^ [10] "Einstein asks Nathan to rely on his connections to help Philippe Halsman, a Jewish man wrongly convicted..."
- ^ [11] "I was a very clumsy Jewish kid."
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- ^ [13] "Helen Levitt, Ben Shahn, Lisette Model -- are or were Jewish"
- ^ [14] "Her mother, the late Linda McCartney, was Jewish and friends say McCartney was "very open" to joining the alternative religion."
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- ^ [16]
- ^ [17] "his name to David Robert Seymour to make himself invisible as a Jewish photographer"
- ^ [18] "But Sherman, who like Lewin is Jewish, says the theme of her work..."
- ^ [19] "To Jewish socialists like Siskind, black people were to be seen only as potential allies in the..."
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- ^ [21] "Strand, a Jewish kid raised in a hothouse milieu of social and esthetic..."
- ^ [22] "Weegee was a Ukrainian-Jewish immigrant whose family landed on New York’s Lower East Side in 1910."
- ^ [23] "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."
