List of Jewish American photographers

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This is a list of famous Jewish American photographers. For other famous Jewish Americans, see List of Jewish Americans.'

• Diane Arbus^[1]
• Eve Arnold, photojournalist
• Richard Avedon^[2]
• Margaret Bourke-White^[3]
• Cornell Capa
• Robert Capa^[4]
• Alfred Eisenstaedt^[5]
• Elliott Erwitt, photographer (half Jewish)
• Robert Frank^[6]
• Lee Friedlander
• Nan Goldin^[7]
• Philippe Halsman^[8]
• André Kertész
• William Klein^[9]
• Annie Leibovitz^[10]
• Helen Levitt^[11]
• Linda McCartney^[12]
• Arnold Newman
• Irving Penn
• Man Ray^[13]
• Herb Ritts
• Joe Rosenthal^[14]
• Arthur Rothstein
• David Seymour^[15]
• Cindy Sherman^[16]
• Aaron Siskind^[17]
• Alfred Stieglitz^[18]
• Paul Strand^[19]
• Doris Ulmann
• Weegee^[20]
• Charlie White
• Garry Winogrand^[21]

[edit] Footnotes

1. ^ [1] [2]"slight Jewish girl from a well-to-do Park Avenue family..."
2. ^ [3] "Each was Jewish, each came from successful New York mercantile families, and each was fiercely devoted to the work at hand."
3. ^ [4]
4. ^ [5] "Founding members Robert Capa and David Seymour were themselves Jewish émigrés from central Europe..."
5. ^ [6] [7]
6. ^ [8] "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."
7. ^ [9] "Jewish-American women photographers... including Nan Goldin..."
8. ^ [10] "Einstein asks Nathan to rely on his connections to help Philippe Halsman, a Jewish man wrongly convicted..."
9. ^ [11] "I was a very clumsy Jewish kid."
10. ^ [12]
11. ^ [13] "Helen Levitt, Ben Shahn, Lisette Model -- are or were Jewish"
12. ^ [14] "Her mother, the late Linda McCartney, was Jewish and friends say McCartney was "very open" to joining the alternative religion."
13. ^ [15]
14. ^ [16]
15. ^ [17] "his name to David Robert Seymour to make himself invisible as a Jewish photographer"
16. ^ [18] "But Sherman, who like Lewin is Jewish, says the theme of her work..."
17. ^ [19] "To Jewish socialists like Siskind, black people were to be seen only as potential allies in the..."
18. ^ [20]
19. ^ [21] "Strand, a Jewish kid raised in a hothouse milieu of social and esthetic..."
20. ^ [22] "Weegee was a Ukrainian-Jewish immigrant whose family landed on New York’s Lower East Side in 1910."
21. ^ [23] "His pictures represent a viewpoint on society, one that is worldy and also often seen with humour - as one might expect from a Jewish New-Yorker. They reflect the troubled period he lived through."