Sonia Handelman Meyer Explained

Sonia Handelman Meyer
Birth Name:Cecil Joan Weiner
Birth Date:February 12, 1920
Birth Place:Lakewood Township, New Jersey
Death Date:September 11, 2022
Death Place:Charlotte, North Carolina (aged 102)
Nationality:American
Occupation:Photographer
Children:2

Sonia Handelman Meyer (February 12, 1920 – September 11, 2022) was an American photographer, best known for her street photography as a member of the New York Photo League.

Early life and education

Meyer was born in Lakewood Township, New Jersey, in 1920.[1] [2] She was in the first graduating class of Queens College, New York in 1941.[3]

Life and work

Meyer discovered photography in 1942 while she was a civilian worker at Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico, for the U.S. Army Signal Corps.[4] [5]

Returning to New York in the 1940s, she was a member of the New York Photo League from 1943 to 1951, as a both photographer and secretary.[4] [6] Following World War II, she photographed Jewish Holocaust survivors in New York.[7] [5] She participated in the 1949 exhibition This is the Photo League.[4]

After the dissolution of the Photo League in 1951, Meyer's work went largely unrecognized until 2006 when it was rediscovered by a gallery owner in Charlotte, North Carolina.[8]

In 2014 the Mint Museum in Charlotte presented the exhibition Bearing Witness: The New York Photo League and Sonia Handelman Meyer.[9] [10] In 2019 she was included in the exhibition Modern Women: Modern Vision, Works from the Bank of America Collection at the Tampa Museum of Art.[11]

Meyer died in Charlotte, North Carolina, on September 11, 2022, at the age of 102.[12]

Collections

Meyer's work is held in the following permanent collections:

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2019-12-06. Sonia Handelman Meyer. www.soniahandelmanmeyer.com. https://web.archive.org/web/20160323080032/http://soniahandelmanmeyer.com/Text_page.cfm?pID=5095. March 23, 2016. live.
  2. Web site: Sonia Handelman Meyer . Charlotte Museum . December 6, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191206045529/http://charlottemuseum.org/sonia-handelman-meyer/ . December 6, 2019 . live .
  3. Web site: Alumni info: Name: Sonia Handelman Meyer . Queens College, City University of New York . December 6, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160729132321/https://www.qc.cuny.edu/qc_profile/alumni/Pages/default.aspx?FullName=Sonia%20Handelman%20Meyer . July 29, 2016 . live .
  4. Web site: Revealing subjects - Sonia Handelman Meyer, 2016 ASC Honors. 2016-04-29. December 6, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191206054943/https://www.artsandscience.org/revealing-subjects-sonia-handelman-meyer-2016-asc-honors/. December 6, 2019. live.
  5. Book: Jewish New York: The Remarkable Story of a City and a People. 9781479850389. Moore. Deborah Dash. Gurock. Jeffrey S.. Polland. Annie. Rock. Howard B.. Soyer. Daniel. 2017-10-10. NYU Press .
  6. Web site: 15 Years That Changed Photography . David . Gonzalez . New York Times . 2011-11-04 . December 6, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190930142050/https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/04/15-years-that-changed-photography/ . September 30, 2019 . live .
  7. News: Radical photographers helped shape art into activism . Dan . Pine . J . 2012-10-05 . December 6, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191206053413/https://www.jweekly.com/2012/10/05/radical-photographers-helped-shape-art-into-activism/ . December 6, 2019 . live .
  8. Web site: After 70 Years in Boxes, Photos by Charlotte Woman Find Place at Mint, Met . Briana . Duggan . WFAE . 2014-01-06 . December 6, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191206050304/https://www.wfae.org/post/after-70-years-boxes-photos-charlotte-woman-find-place-mint-met . December 6, 2019 . live .
  9. Web site: Bearing Witness: The New York Photo League and Sonia Handelman Meyer . Mint Museum . December 6, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191206054435/https://mintmuseum.org/bearing-witness-the-new-york-photo-league-and-sonia-handelman-meyer/ . December 6, 2019 . live .
  10. Web site: Charlotte woman's photos show post-war America . Barbara . Thiede . Charlotte Observer . 2015-07-21 . December 6, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191208041513/https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/community/cabarrus/article28038400.html . December 8, 2019 . live .
  11. Web site: Current Exhibitions - Tampa Museum of Art . February 21, 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191010232046/https://tampamuseum.org/current-exhibitions/ . October 10, 2019 . live .
  12. Web site: Sonia Handelman Meyer, Socially Conscious Photographer, Dies at 102. The New York Times. Sandomir. Richard. September 28, 2022. September 28, 2022.
  13. Web site: 2019-12-06. Boy in Mask, Harlem 1945. www.metmuseum.org. https://web.archive.org/web/20191206044735/https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/302529. December 6, 2019. live.
  14. Web site: 2019-12-06. The Jewish Museum. Sonia Handelman Meyer: American, b. 1920. https://web.archive.org/web/20170706074654/http://thejewishmuseum.org/collection/artist/sonia-handelman-meyer-american-b-1920. July 6, 2017. live.
  15. Web site: Bearing Witness: The New York Photo League and Sonia Handelman Meyer to open November 23 at Mint Museum Randolph . Leigh . Dyer . 2013-11-15 . Mint Museum . December 6, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190516193707/https://mintmuseum.org/newest-mint-museum-exhibition-features-the-work-of-93-year-old-charlotte-photographer/ . May 16, 2019 . live .

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