This is a list of notable Jewish American photographers. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans.
Bob Adelman "Meet the Jewish Photographers Who Helped Shape the Image of the Civil Rights Movement" Merry Alpern Jewish Women's Archive Diane Arbus "slight Jewish girl from a well-to-do Park Avenue family..." Eve Arnold"Arnold was born in Philadelphia to Russian immigrants (her father, William Cohen, was a rabbi)..." Bill Aron Ellen Auerbach Richard Avedon "Each was Jewish, each came from successful New York mercantile families, and each was fiercely devoted to the work at hand." Sid Avery Lillian Bassman Bassman grew up in Brooklyn, NY, as a product of Jewish immigrants... Janette Beckman “How Janette Beckman Captured Music History in Real Time,” artnet.com, Min Chen, May 20, 2026 Michael Benabib “Never-before-seen photos of some of hip-hop's legends on display in NYC,” By Adeja Shivonne and Christal Young, Fox5ny.com, April 23, 2023 Lucienne Bloch Erwin Blumenfeld"He was born into a middle-class Jewish family in Berlin..." The Telegraph, 18 MAY 2013 Margaret Bourke-White Josef Breitenbach Robert CapaCapa 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) Solomon Nunes Carvalho Lynne Cohen Ted Croner "Jews and Photography" Commentary Magazine Judy Dater Bruce Davidson Alfred Eisenstaedt Elliot Erwitt Louis Faurer Nat Fein Andreas Feininger Barry Feinstein Trude Fleischmann Jewish Women's Archive Robert Frank "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." Leonard Freed Lee Friedlander Glen Friedman,“Glen E. Friedman on the Golden Eras of Skateboarding, Punk Rock, and Hip Hop,” Jeanette D. Moses, PopPhoto.com, 9/16 2014 Nan Goldin "Jewish-American women photographers... including Nan Goldin..." Judith Golden Milton H. Greene Lauren Greenfield Sid Grossman The Jewish Museum Philippe Halsman "Einstein asks Nathan to rely on his connections to help Philippe Halsman, a Jewish man wrongly convicted..." Erich Hartmannhttps://www.magnumphotos.com/photographer/erich-hartmann/ Don Hunstein Lotte Jacobi André Kertész William Klein "I was a very clumsy Jewish kid." Max Kozloff "Do Jewish Photographers See the World Through a Different Lens?" Jill Krementz Gillian Laub"A Conversation With Gillian Laub." Albert, Elisa. www.tabletmag.com The Tablet. Published October 8, 2015. Accessed February 24, 2021. Alma Lavenson Annie LeibovitzBiographies of Jewish Women Table of Contents Saul Leiter Herman Leonard “Herman Leonard’s Eye for Jazz,” David Friend, Vanity Fair, January 12, 2010 Rebecca Lepkoff Leon Levinstein Helen Levitt "Helen Levitt, Ben Shahn, Lisette Model -- are or were Jewish" Danny Lyon Linda McCartneyDaily Dish (April 12, 2004) "Madonna's Financial Request Upset McCartney", SF Gate. Vivian Maier Mary Ellen Mark Jeff Mermelstein Joel Meyerowitz Carl Mydans Arnold Newman"Arnold Newman (1918–2006) in New York City to a relatively poor family of second-generation Jewish immigrants." Contemporary Jewish Museum Arthur Ollman Ruth Orkin Ricky Powell, "Ricky Powell Explains Why His New York Was the Best New York," Ernesto Macias, Interview magazine, Feb. 10, 2021 Irving Penn Man Ray Ann Rosener Joe Rosenthal Louise Rosskam Arthur Rothstein Eva Rubinstein Steve Schapiro Herb Scharfman Jerry Schatzberg Paul Schutzer David Seymour "his name to David Robert Seymour to make himself invisible as a Jewish photographer" Ben Shahn Art Shay Cindy Sherman Stephen Shore Julius Shulman "Shulman was born to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents in Brooklyn, New York..." Aaron Siskind "To Jewish socialists like Siskind, black people were to be seen only as potential allies in the..." Rosalind Fox Solomon Bert Stern Phil Stern Marcel SternbergerMarcel Sternberger Collection - Jewish Identity Joel Sternfeld Alfred StieglitzJewish Art Education: Myrna Teck Ezra Stoller Lou Stoumen Paul Strand "Strand, a Jewish kid raised in a hothouse milieu of social and esthetic..." Stanley TretickKitty Kelley, Capturing Camelot, p. 4: "his grandfather was a rabbi who read him the Torah every day...." Doris Ulmann "second daughter of Reform Jewish parents" Jewish Women's Archive Roman Vishniac Weegee (real name Arthur Felig) "Weegee was a Ukrainian-Jewish immigrant whose family landed on New York's Lower East Side in 1910." Dan Weiner Garry Winogrand "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." Penny Wolin
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