Zaida Ben-Yusuf

Zaida Ben-Yusuf (1869-1933) was an American portrait photographer. Ben-Yusuf was born in London to an Algerian Muslim father and a German mother of Algerian descent. She immigrated to New York in 1897.

Ben-Yusuf was noted for portraits of the wealthy, fashionable, and famous Americans of the period. In 1891 the Ladies Home Journal featured her in a group of six photographers that it dubbed, "The Foremost Women Photographers in America." [ Ladies Home Journal November, 1901] A photo essay of a trip she took to Japan was published in the Saturday Review.

In 2008 the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery mounted an exhibition of Ben-Yusuf's work, aiming to "recover" the work of an artist who had fallen from memory. [ [http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/curex1.htm#zaida National Portrait Gallery | Exhibitions ] ]

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* [http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/zaida/index.html Simthsonian web photo exhibit of Ben-Yusuf's work] Zaïda's father was named Mustapha Moussa Ben-Youseph Nathan, he has jewish origins.

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