Zaida Ben-Yusuf
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Zaida Ben-Yusuf (1869-1933) was an American portrait photographer. Ben-Yusuf was born in London to an Algerian Muslim father and a German mother of Algerian descent. She immigrated to New York in 1897.
Ben-Yusuf was noted for portraits of the wealthy, fashionable, and famous Americans of the period. In 1891 the Ladies Home Journal featured her in a gorup of six photographers that it dubed, "The Foremost Women Photographers in America." [1] A photo essay of a trip she took to Japan was published in the Saturday Review.
In 2008 the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery mounted an exhibition of Ben-Yusuf's work, aiming to "recover" the work of an artist who had falled from memory. [2]
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- ^ Ladies Home Journal November, 1901
- ^ National Portrait Gallery | Exhibitions
