List of Jewish American photographers

"This is a list of notable Jewish American photographers. For other notable Jewish Americans, see List of Jewish Americans.'

*Diane Arbus [ [http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/arbus.html] [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/essays/vanRiper/030925.htm] "slight Jewish girl from a well-to-do Park Avenue family..."]
*Eve Arnold, photojournalist
*Richard Avedon [ [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/essays/vanRiper/041005.htm] "Each was Jewish, each came from successful New York mercantile families, and each was fiercely devoted to the work at hand."]
*Margaret Bourke-White [ [http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/white.html Margaret Bourke-White ] ]
*Cornell Capa
*Robert Capa [ [http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=2-0893817740-3] "Founding members Robert Capa and David Seymour were themselves Jewish émigrés from central Europe..."]
*Alfred Eisenstaedt [ [http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/artists.html] [http://jewisharteducation.com/photographer.html] ]
*Elliott Erwitt, photographer (half Jewish)
*Robert Frank [ [http://www.artcritical.com/appel/BAFrank.htm] "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."]
*Lee Friedlander
*Nan Goldin [ [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0415919355] "Jewish-American women photographers... including Nan Goldin..."]
*Philippe Halsman [ [http://specialcollections.vassar.edu/exhibits/einstein/essay3.html] "Einstein asks Nathan to rely on his connections to help Philippe Halsman, a Jewish man wrongly convicted..."]
*André Kertész
*William Klein [ [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1238966] "I was a very clumsy Jewish kid."]
*Annie Leibovitz [ [http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/biowomen.html Biographies of Jewish Women Table of Contents ] ]
*Helen Levitt [http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/reviews/robinson/robinson4-29-02.asp] "Helen Levitt, Ben Shahn, Lisette Model -- are or were Jewish"]
*Linda McCartney [ [http://www.rickross.com/reference/kabbalah/kabbalah59.html] "Her mother, the late Linda McCartney, was Jewish and friends say McCartney was "very open" to joining the alternative religion."]
*Arnold Newman
*Irving Penn
*Man Ray [ [http://www.adherents.com/people/pr/Man_Ray.html Religion of Man Ray, famous Jewish American artist ] ]
*Herb Ritts
*Joe Rosenthal [ [http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/JRosenthal.html Joe Rosenthal ] ]
*Arthur Rothstein
*David Seymour [ [http://www.artgallery.umd.edu/chim/biography.html] "his name to David Robert Seymour to make himself invisible as a Jewish photographer"]
*Cindy Sherman [ [http://www.clal.org/ss57.html] "But Sherman, who like Lewin is Jewish, says the theme of her work..."]
*Aaron Siskind [ [http://www.commentarymagazine.com/Summaries/V93I2P61-1.htm] "To Jewish socialists like Siskind, black people were to be seen only as potential allies in the..."]
*Alfred Stieglitz [ [http://jewisharteducation.com/photographer.html Jewish Art Education: Myrna Teck ] ]
*Paul Strand [ [http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/features/schjeldahl/schjeldahl4-3-98.asp] "Strand, a Jewish kid raised in a hothouse milieu of social and esthetic..."]
*Doris Ulmann
*Roman Vishniac
*Weegee [ [http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/arts/art/documents/02225257.htm] "Weegee was a Ukrainian-Jewish immigrant whose family landed on New York’s Lower East Side in 1910."]
*Charlie White
*Garry Winogrand [ [http://photography.about.com/library/dop/bldop_gwinog.htm] "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."]

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