Georgia Litwack

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Georgia Litwack
Born
Georgia Shuset

January 27, 1922
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US
DiedMay 10, 2020
Auburndale, Massachusetts, US
OccupationPhotographer

Georgia Shuset Litwack was born in January 27 in Pennslyvania. She was an American photographer and photojournalist, best known for her portraits of notable women in the arts, science and technology.

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Early life

Georgia Shuset was born in Pittsburgh, the daughter of Jacob Shuset and Rose Katz Shuset. [1] Her parents were Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe who ran a candy business. [2] She graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 1942. [3] She later studied photographry with Minor White at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Career

After college, Shuset worked as a staff writer for the United Press. As a wife and mother in the Boston area, she had public relations jobs at the Boston Children's Museum and the Museum of Science, and contributed photographs and articles to The Boston Globe . [4] [5] [6] As her photography practice became more advanced, she began teaching classes in the subject at Radcliffe, at the DeCordova Museum School of Art in Lincoln, and in workshops for various audiences throughout greater Boston. [7] [3]

Litwack's photography projects included Born Early: The Story of a Premature Baby (1983), a book and exhibit documenting a baby's first months, [8] with pediatrician Mary Ellen Avery as co-author; [9] and portraits of notable women in arts, science and technology, exhibited several times [10] [11] and now in the collection of the Schlesinger Library. Her subjects included art educator Elma Lewis, [12] physicist Margaret MacVicar, [13] poet Maxine Kumin, [14] anthropologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, [4] computer scientist Shafira Goldwasser, and physicist Mildred Dresselhaus. [11] She contributed photographs to the calendar Jewish Women Around the World. [11] She was working on a project about photographer Jessie Tarbox Beals at the time of her death. [3]

Personal life

Georgia Shuset married lawyer John Litwack in 1945. They lived in Newton, Massachusetts, and had two daughters, Deborah and Helen. Her husband died in 2010. Georgia Litwack died in 2020 from COVID-19, in Auburndale, Massachusetts, at age 98. [3] Her papers are housed at the Schlesinger Library. [15]

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  1. ↑ "Shuset". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. 1962-07-10. p. 23. Retrieved 2020-12-12– via Newspapers.com.
  2. ↑ "Obituary for Jacob W. Shuset". The Pittsburgh Press. 1962-07-10. p. 11. Retrieved 2020-12-12– via Newspapers.com.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Marquard, Bryan (May 17, 2020). "Georgia Litwack, whose photography focused on accomplished women, dies at 98 of COVID-19 complications". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 2020-12-12.
  4. 1 2 Litwack, Georgia (1979-04-08). "Understanding Sociobiology". The Boston Globe. p. 250. Retrieved 2020-12-12– via Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ Litwack, Georgia (1985-03-03). "Danish Haven for Modern Art". The Boston Globe. p. 193. Retrieved 2020-12-12– via Newspapers.com.
  6. ↑ Litwack, Georgia (1997-09-21). "Solemn Dignity in Spain". The Boston Globe. p. 250. Retrieved 2020-12-12– via Newspapers.com.
  7. ↑ Friedberg, Gilbert (1971-02-28). "Black and White's Very Much Alive". The Boston Globe. p. 134. Retrieved 2020-12-12– via Newspapers.com.
  8. ↑ Wise, Kelly (1983-05-12). "Three Shows that Pique the Human Interest". The Boston Globe. p. 69. Retrieved 2020-12-12– via Newspapers.com.
  9. ↑ Avery, Mary Ellen, 1927-2011. (1983). Born early. Litwack, Georgia. (1st ed.). Boston: Little, Brown. ISBN   0-316-05865-3. OCLC   9196291.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  10. ↑ "Georgia Litwack: Captured Moments of Being Female". Pine Manor College. October 30 – December 4, 2008. Retrieved 2020-12-12.
  11. 1 2 3 Prato, Cate Coulacos (2003-08-24). "Portraying Other Faces of Science". The Boston Globe. p. 73. Retrieved 2020-12-12– via Newspapers.com.
  12. ↑ Litwack, Georgia (1978). "Elma Lewis". Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Retrieved 2020-12-12.
  13. ↑ "Remembering MacVicar". MIT SHASS. 2012. Retrieved 2020-12-12.
  14. ↑ "Maxine W. Kumin | The Hudson Review" . Retrieved 2020-12-12.
  15. ↑ Papers of Georgia Litwack, 1972-1999, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
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