Larry Silver

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Larry Silver (born 1934) is an American photographer. He was born in the Bronx. While a student at the High School of Industrial Art in Manhattan he met members of the Photo League, among them Lou Bernstein, W. Eugene Smith and Weegee. He won a first prize in the Scholastic-Ansco Photography Awards, and a scholarship to the Art Center School in Los Angeles. Silver takes black-and-white photographs, mainly documenting the places he has lived: Santa Monica Beach, California; New York City; [1] and Westport, Connecticut. [2]

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Silver's work is in various museum collections including those of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the George Eastman House, the Whitney Museum of American Art, [1] the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, [3] and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. [4] His work has been shown in many solo and group exhibitions.

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  1. 1 2 Larry Silver Archived 2018-04-26 at the Wayback Machine . International Center of Photography. Accessed May 2014.
  2. ↑ Dominic Mariani (December 12, 2002). Silver plated. The Sunday Hour. Accessed May 2014.
  3. ↑ Collections Search: Larry Silver. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Accessed May 2014.
  4. ↑ Headstand, Muscle Beach, Santa Monica, California, 1954: Larry Silver (United States, North America); accession number 91.75 Archived 2011-05-26 at the Wayback Machine . Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Accessed May 2014.

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