List of Jewish American photographers explained

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

• Bob Adelman^[1]
• Merry Alpern^[2]
• Diane Arbus^{[3] [4]}
• Eve Arnold^[5]
• Bill Aron
• Ellen Auerbach
• Richard Avedon^[6]
• Sid Avery^[7]
• Lillian Bassman^[8]
• Lucienne Bloch
• Erwin Blumenfeld^[9]
• Margaret Bourke-White
• Josef Breitenbach
• Robert Capa^[10]
• Solomon Nunes Carvalho
• Lynne Cohen^[2]
• Ted Croner^[11]
• Judy Dater
• Bruce Davidson^{[11] [1]}
• Alfred Eisenstaedt^[12]
• Elliot Erwitt
• Louis Faurer^[11]
• Nat Fein^[13]
• Andreas Feininger
• Barry Feinstein
• Trude Fleischmann^[14]
• Robert Frank^{[15] [1]}
• Leonard Freed^[11]
• Lee Friedlander
• Nan Goldin^[16]
• Milton H. Greene^[11]
• Lauren Greenfield^[2]
• Sid Grossman^[17]
• Philippe Halsman^[18]
• Don Hunstein
• Lotte Jacobi^[19]
• André Kertèsz^[20]
• William Klein^[21]
• Max Kozloff^[22]
• Jill Krementz
• Gillian Laub^[23]
• Alma Lavenson^[2]
• Annie Leibovitz^[24]
• Saul Leiter^[11]
• Rebecca Lepkoff
• Leon Levinstein^[11]
• Helen Levitt^{[25] [2]}
• Danny Lyon^[1]
• Linda McCartney^[26]
• Vivian Maier
• Mary Ellen Mark^[27]
• Jeff Mermelstein^[11]
• Joel Meyerowitz^[11]
• Carl Mydans^[11]
• Arnold Newman^[28]
• Arthur Ollman^[29]
• Ruth Orkin^[2]
• Irving Penn
• Man Ray^[30]
• Ann Rosener
• Joe Rosenthal^[31]
• Louise Rosskam
• Arthur Rothstein^[11]
• Eva Rubinstein
• Steve Schapiro^[1]
• Herb Scharfman
• Jerry Schatzberg^[32]
• Paul Schutzer^[33]
• David Seymour^[34]
• Ben Shahn^[11]
• Art Shay^[1]
• Cindy Sherman^[11]
• Stephen Shore^[35]
• Julius Shulman^[36]
• Aaron Siskind^[37]
• Rosalind Fox Solomon^[2]
• Bert Stern
• Phil Stern^[38]
• Marcel Sternberger^[39]
• Joel Sternfeld^[11]
• Alfred Stieglitz^[40]
• Ezra Stoller^[11]
• Lou Stoumen^[22]
• Paul Strand^[41]
• Stanley Tretick^[42]
• Doris Ulmann^[43]
• Roman Vishniac
• Weegee (real name Arthur Felig) ^[44]
• Dan Weiner^[11]
• Garry Winogrand^[45]
• Penny Wolin^[46]

Footnotes

1. https://forward.com/culture/360145/meet-the-jewish-photographers-who-helped-shape-the-image-of-the-civil-right/
2. https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/photographers-in-united-states
3. https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/arbus.html
4. Web site: Photographers in the United States . 2023-05-02 . Jewish Women's Archive . en.
5. https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/eve-arnold
6. https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/essays/vanRiper/041005.htm
7. Web site: Jewish Photographers genealogy project . 2023-05-02 . geni_family_tree . en-US.
8. http://www.artnet.com/artists/lillian-bassman/biography
9. http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/news-features/TMG10062375/The-extraordinary-story-of-Erwin-Blumenfeld.html
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)
11. https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/jews-and-photography/
12. https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/artists.html
13. https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/nat-fein> Jewish Virtual Library
14. https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/fleischmann-trude%3E
15. http://www.artcritical.com/appel/BAFrank.htm
16. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0415919355
17. https://thejewishmuseum.org/collection/artist/sid-grossman-american-1913-1955
18. Web site: Action at a Distance: Einstein as Activist . 2006-05-18 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20060829052212/http://specialcollections.vassar.edu/exhibits/einstein/essay3.html . 2006-08-29 . "Einstein asks Nathan to rely on his connections to help Philippe Halsman, a Jewish man wrongly convicted..."
19. Web site: Jacobi, Lotte.
20. https://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Kert%C3%A9sz
21. https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1238966
22. https://forward.com/culture/189093/do-jewish-photographers-see-the-world-through-a-di/
23. https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/southern-rites-gillian-laub "A Conversation With Gillian Laub."
24. https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/biowomen.html Biographies of Jewish Women Table of Contents
25. http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/reviews/robinson/robinson4-29-02.asp
26. Daily Dish (April 12, 2004) "Madonna's Financial Request Upset McCartney", SF Gate.
27. https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/mark-mary-ellen
28. https://www.thecjm.org/exhibitions/51
29. Web site: Schinto . Jeanne . San Diego's MOPA and its indefatigable Arthur Ollman . San Diego Reader . San Diego Reader . 6 May 2020 . 3 May 2001.
30. https://web.archive.org/web/20060504125919/http://www.adherents.com/people/pr/Man_Ray.html Religion of Man Ray, famous Jewish American artist
31. https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/JRosenthal.html Joe Rosenthal
32. Book: Kaufman, David. Jewhooing the Sixties. 195. UPNE. 9781611683158. 2012. 2019-03-20.
33. Web site: Paul Schutzer.
34. Web site: Close Enough: Photography by David Seymour (Chim) . 2006-05-18 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20060418102156/http://www.artgallery.umd.edu/chim/biography.html . 2006-04-18 . "his name to David Robert Seymour to make himself invisible as a Jewish photographer"
35. Stephen Shore Photography: American Surfaces to Uncommon Places. Shore was born in New York City in 1947, the sole son of Jewish parents who ran a handbag company.. Ben Crair. The New Republic. October 2013. 2019-05-03.
36. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/jul/17/obituary-julius-shulman
37. Web site: Commentary Magazine - Harlem Photographs: 1932-1940, by Aaron Siskind . 2006-05-18 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20050421011610/http://www.commentarymagazine.com/Summaries/V93I2P61-1.htm . 2005-04-21 . "To Jewish socialists like Siskind, black people were to be seen only as potential allies in the..."
38. News: McFadden. Robert D.. Phil Stern, Who Made Candid Images of War and Hollywood, Dies at 95. New York Times. 2017-12-06. 2014-12-15.
39. https://www.sternbergercollection.com/jewish-identity/ Marcel Sternberger Collection - Jewish Identity
40. http://jewisharteducation.com/photographer.html Jewish Art Education: Myrna Teck
41. http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/features/schjeldahl/schjeldahl4-3-98.asp
42. Kitty Kelley, Capturing Camelot, p. 4: "his grandfather was a rabbi who read him the Torah every day...."
43. https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/ulmann-doris-may
44. Web site: Art | . 2006-05-18 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20060502041742/http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/arts/art/documents/02225257.htm . 2006-05-02 . "Weegee was a Ukrainian-Jewish immigrant whose family landed on New York's Lower East Side in 1910."
45. http://photography.about.com/library/dop/bldop_gwinog.htm
46. News: Kosher Cowboys: The Jews of Wyoming. Sarah Booth Conroy. The Washington Post. August 1992. 2019-05-03.