List of Jewish American photographers

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This is a list of notable Jewish American photographers. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans.

Bruce Davidson

Annie Leibovitz

Joel Meyerowitz

Jerry Schatzberg

Stephen Shore

Penny Wolin

• Bob Adelman ^[1]
• Merry Alpern ^[2]
• Diane Arbus ^{[3] [4]}
• Eve Arnold ^[5]
• Bill Aron
• Ellen Auerbach ^{[2] [4]}
• Richard Avedon ^[6]
• Sid Avery ^[7]
• Lillian Bassman ^[8]
• Lucienne Bloch ^[7]
• Erwin Blumenfeld ^[9]
• Margaret Bourke-White ^[7]
• Josef Breitenbach ^[7]
• Robert Capa ^[10]
• Solomon Nunes Carvalho ^[7]
• Lynne Cohen ^[2]
• Ted Croner ^[11]
• Judy Dater ^[4]
• Bruce Davidson ^{[11] [1]}
• Alfred Eisenstaedt ^[12]
• Elliot Erwitt ^[7]
• Louis Faurer ^[11]
• Nat Fein
• Andreas Feininger ^[7]
• Barry Feinstein ^[13]
• Trude Fleischmann ^[14]
• Robert Frank ^{[15] [1]}
• Leonard Freed ^[11]
• Lee Friedlander ^[7]
• Nan Goldin ^[16]
• Milton H. Greene ^[11]
• Lauren Greenfield ^[2]
• Sid Grossman ^[17]
• Philippe Halsman ^[18]
• Erich Hartmann ^[19]
• Don Hunstein ^[13]
• Lotte Jacobi
• André Kertész
• William Klein ^[20]
• Max Kozloff ^[21]
• Jill Krementz ^[7]
• Gillian Laub ^[22]
• Alma Lavenson ^[2]
• Annie Leibovitz ^[23]
• Saul Leiter ^[11]
• Rebecca Lepkoff ^[4]
• Leon Levinstein ^[11]
• Helen Levitt ^{[24] [2]}
• Danny Lyon ^[1]
• Linda McCartney ^[25]
• Vivian Maier ^[7]
• Mary Ellen Mark
• Jeff Mermelstein ^[11]
• Joel Meyerowitz ^[11]
• Carl Mydans ^[11]
• Arnold Newman ^[26]
• Arthur Ollman ^[27]
• Ruth Orkin ^{[2] [4]}
• Irving Penn ^[7]
• Man Ray ^[28]
• Ann Rosener ^[7]
• Joe Rosenthal ^{[ citation needed ]}
• Louise Rosskam ^[7]
• Arthur Rothstein ^[11]
• Eva Rubinstein ^[7]
• Steve Schapiro ^[1]
• Herb Scharfman
• Jerry Schatzberg ^[13]
• Paul Schutzer
• David Seymour ^[29]
• Ben Shahn ^[11]
• Art Shay ^[1]
• Cindy Sherman ^[11]
• Stephen Shore ^[30]
• Julius Shulman ^[31]
• Aaron Siskind ^[32]
• Rosalind Fox Solomon ^[2]
• Bert Stern ^[7]
• Phil Stern ^[33]
• Marcel Sternberger ^[34]
• Joel Sternfeld ^[11]
• Alfred Stieglitz ^[35]
• Ezra Stoller ^[11]
• Lou Stoumen ^[21]
• Paul Strand ^[36]
• Stanley Tretick ^[37]
• Doris Ulmann ^{[38] [4]}
• Roman Vishniac ^[7]
• Weegee (real name Arthur Felig) ^[39]
• Dan Weiner ^[11]
• Garry Winogrand ^[40]
• Penny Wolin ^[41]

Footnotes

1. "Meet the Jewish Photographers Who Helped Shape the Image of the Civil Rights Movement"
2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Jewish Women's Archive
3. "slight Jewish girl from a well-to-do Park Avenue family..."
4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Photographers in the United States". Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved May 2, 2023.
5. "Arnold was born in Philadelphia to Russian immigrants (her father, William Cohen, was a rabbi)..."
6. "Each was Jewish, each came from successful New York mercantile families, and each was fiercely devoted to the work at hand."
7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 "Jewish Photographers genealogy project". geni_family_tree. Retrieved May 2, 2023.
8. Bassman grew up in Brooklyn, NY, as a product of Jewish immigrants...
9. "He was born into a middle-class Jewish family in Berlin..." The Telegraph, 18 MAY 2013
10. Capa was born Endre Ernő Friedmann to the Jewish family of Júlia (née Berkovits) and Dezső Friedmann in Budapest, Austria-Hungary, on October 22, 1913. Kershaw, Alex. Blood and Champagne: The Life and Times of Robert Capa, Macmillan (2002) ISBN   978-0-306-81356-6
11. "Jews and Photography" Commentary Magazine
13. 1 2 3 Kaufman, David (2012). Jewhooing the Sixties. UPNE. p. 195. ISBN   9781611683158 . Retrieved March 20, 2019.
14. Jewish Women's Archive
15. "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."
16. "Jewish-American women photographers... including Nan Goldin..."
17. The Jewish Museum
18. "Action at a Distance: Einstein as Activist". Archived from the original on August 29, 2006. Retrieved May 18, 2006. "Einstein asks Nathan to rely on his connections to help Philippe Halsman, a Jewish man wrongly convicted..."
19. https://www.magnumphotos.com/photographer/erich-hartmann/
20. "I was a very clumsy Jewish kid."
21. 1 2 "Do Jewish Photographers See the World Through a Different Lens?"
22. "A Conversation With Gillian Laub." Albert, Elisa. www.tabletmag.com The Tablet. Published October 8, 2015. Accessed February 24, 2021.
23. Biographies of Jewish Women Table of Contents
24. "Helen Levitt, Ben Shahn, Lisette Model -- are or were Jewish"
25. Daily Dish (April 12, 2004) "Madonna's Financial Request Upset McCartney", SF Gate.
26. "Arnold Newman (1918–2006) in New York City to a relatively poor family of second-generation Jewish immigrants." Contemporary Jewish Museum
27. Schinto, Jeanne (May 3, 2001). "San Diego's MOPA and its indefatigable Arthur Ollman". San Diego Reader. San Diego Reader. Retrieved May 6, 2020.
28. Religion of Man Ray, famous Jewish American artist ^{[ usurped ]}
29. "Close Enough: Photography by David Seymour (Chim)". Archived from the original on April 18, 2006. Retrieved May 18, 2006. "his name to David Robert Seymour to make himself invisible as a Jewish photographer"
30. Ben Crair (October 2013). "Stephen Shore Photography: American Surfaces to Uncommon Places". The New Republic . Retrieved May 3, 2019. Shore was born in New York City in 1947, the sole son of Jewish parents who ran a handbag company.
31. "Shulman was born to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents in Brooklyn, New York..."
32. "Commentary Magazine - Harlem Photographs: 1932-1940, by Aaron Siskind". Archived from the original on April 21, 2005. Retrieved May 18, 2006. "To Jewish socialists like Siskind, black people were to be seen only as potential allies in the..."
33. McFadden, Robert D. (December 15, 2014). "Phil Stern, Who Made Candid Images of War and Hollywood, Dies at 95". New York Times . Retrieved December 6, 2017.
34. Marcel Sternberger Collection - Jewish Identity
35. Jewish Art Education: Myrna Teck
36. "Strand, a Jewish kid raised in a hothouse milieu of social and esthetic..."
37. Kitty Kelley, Capturing Camelot, p. 4: "his grandfather was a rabbi who read him the Torah every day...."
38. "second daughter of Reform Jewish parents" Jewish Women's Archive
39. "Art |". Archived from the original on May 2, 2006. Retrieved May 18, 2006. "Weegee was a Ukrainian-Jewish immigrant whose family landed on New York's Lower East Side in 1910."
40. "His pictures represent a viewpoint on society, one that is worldly and also often seen with humour - as one might expect from a Jewish New-Yorker. They reflect the troubled period he lived through."
41. Sarah Booth Conroy (August 1992). "Kosher Cowboys: The Jews of Wyoming". The Washington Post . Retrieved May 3, 2019.