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

Footnotes

^ "Meet the Jewish Photographers Who Helped Shape the Image of the Civil Rights Movement"
^ Jewish Women's Archive
"slight Jewish girl from a well-to-do Park Avenue family..."
^ "Photographers in the United States". Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved 2023-05-02.
"Arnold was born in Philadelphia to Russian immigrants (her father, William Cohen, was a rabbi)..."
"Each was Jewish, each came from successful New York mercantile families, and each was fiercely devoted to the work at hand."
^ "Jewish Photographers genealogy project". geni_family_tree. Retrieved 2023-05-02.
Bassman grew up in Brooklyn, NY, as a product of Jewish immigrants...
"He was born into a middle-class Jewish family in Berlin..." The Telegraph, 18 MAY 2013
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
^ "Jews and Photography" Commentary Magazine
Nat Fein, Jewish Virtual Library
^ Kaufman, David (2012). Jewhooing the Sixties. UPNE. p. 195. ISBN 9781611683158. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
Jewish Women's Archive
"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."
"Jewish-American women photographers... including Nan Goldin..."
The Jewish Museum
"Action at a Distance: Einstein as Activist". Archived from the original on 2006-08-29. Retrieved 2006-05-18. "Einstein asks Nathan to rely on his connections to help Philippe Halsman, a Jewish man wrongly convicted..."
"Jacobi, Lotte".
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"I was a very clumsy Jewish kid."
^ "Do Jewish Photographers See the World Through a Different Lens?"
"A Conversation With Gillian Laub." Albert, Elisa. www.tabletmag.com The Tablet. Published October 8, 2015. Accessed February 24, 2021.
Biographies of Jewish Women Table of Contents
"Helen Levitt, Ben Shahn, Lisette Model -- are or were Jewish"
Daily Dish (April 12, 2004) "Madonna's Financial Request Upset McCartney", SF Gate.
Jewish Virtual Library
"Arnold Newman (1918–2006) in New York City to a relatively poor family of second-generation Jewish immigrants." Contemporary Jewish Museum
Schinto, Jeanne (3 May 2001). "San Diego's MOPA and its indefatigable Arthur Ollman". San Diego Reader. San Diego Reader. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
Religion of Man Ray, famous Jewish American artist
Joe Rosenthal
"Paul Schutzer".
"Close Enough: Photography by David Seymour (Chim)". Archived from the original on 2006-04-18. Retrieved 2006-05-18. "his name to David Robert Seymour to make himself invisible as a Jewish photographer"
Ben Crair (October 2013). "Stephen Shore Photography: American Surfaces to Uncommon Places". The New Republic. Retrieved 2019-05-03. Shore was born in New York City in 1947, the sole son of Jewish parents who ran a handbag company.
"Shulman was born to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents in Brooklyn, New York..."
"Commentary Magazine - Harlem Photographs: 1932-1940, by Aaron Siskind". Archived from the original on 2005-04-21. Retrieved 2006-05-18. "To Jewish socialists like Siskind, black people were to be seen only as potential allies in the..."
McFadden, Robert D. (2014-12-15). "Phil Stern, Who Made Candid Images of War and Hollywood, Dies at 95". New York Times. Retrieved 2017-12-06.
Marcel Sternberger Collection - Jewish Identity
Jewish Art Education: Myrna Teck
"Strand, a Jewish kid raised in a hothouse milieu of social and esthetic..."
Kitty Kelley, Capturing Camelot, p. 4: "his grandfather was a rabbi who read him the Torah every day...."
"second daughter of Reform Jewish parents" Jewish Women's Archive
"Art |". Archived from the original on 2006-05-02. Retrieved 2006-05-18. "Weegee was a Ukrainian-Jewish immigrant whose family landed on New York's Lower East Side in 1910."
"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."
Sarah Booth Conroy (August 1992). "Kosher Cowboys: The Jews of Wyoming". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2019-05-03.

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