# List of Jewish American photographers

This is a list of notable Jewish American photographers. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans.
* Bob Adelman
* Merry Alpern
* Diane Arbus
* Eve Arnold
* Bill Aron
* Ellen Auerbach
* Richard Avedon
* Sid Avery
* Lillian Bassman
* Lucienne Bloch
* Erwin Blumenfeld
* Margaret Bourke-White
* Josef Breitenbach
* Robert Capa
* Solomon Nunes Carvalho
* Lynne Cohen
* Ted Croner
* Judy Dater
* Bruce Davidson
* Alfred Eisenstaedt
* Elliot Erwitt
* Louis Faurer
* Nat Fein
* Andreas Feininger
* Barry Feinstein
* Trude Fleischmann
* Robert Frank
* Leonard Freed
* Lee Friedlander
* Nan Goldin
* Milton H. Greene
* Lauren Greenfield
* Sid Grossman
* Philippe Halsman
* Don Hunstein
* Lotte Jacobi
* André Kertèsz
* William Klein
* Max Kozloff
* Jill Krementz
* Gillian Laub
* Alma Lavenson
* Annie Leibovitz
* Saul Leiter
* Rebecca Lepkoff
* Leon Levinstein
* Helen Levitt
* Danny Lyon
* Linda McCartney
* Vivian Maier
* Mary Ellen Mark
* Jeff Mermelstein
* Joel Meyerowitz
* Carl Mydans
* Arnold Newman
* Arthur Ollman
* Ruth Orkin
* Irving Penn
* Man Ray
* Ann Rosener
* Joe Rosenthal
* Louise Rosskam
* Arthur Rothstein
* Eva Rubinstein
* Steve Schapiro
* Herb Scharfman
* Jerry Schatzberg
* Paul Schutzer
* David Seymour
* Ben Shahn
* Art Shay
* Cindy Sherman
* Stephen Shore
* Julius Shulman
* Aaron Siskind
* Rosalind Fox Solomon
* Bert Stern
* Phil Stern
* Marcel Sternberger
* Joel Sternfeld
* Alfred Stieglitz
* Ezra Stoller
* Lou Stoumen
* Paul Strand
* Stanley Tretick
* Doris Ulmann
* Roman Vishniac
* Weegee (real name Arthur Felig)
* Dan Weiner
* Garry Winogrand
* Penny Wolin

## Footnotes

* 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Meet the Jewish Photographers Who Helped Shape the Image of the Civil Rights Movement"
* 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Jewish Women's Archive
* ↑ "slight Jewish girl from a well-to-do Park Avenue family..."
* 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Photographers in the United States". Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved 2023-05-02.
* ↑ "Arnold was born in Philadelphia to Russian immigrants (her father, William Cohen, was a rabbi)..."
* ↑ "Each was Jewish, each came from successful New York mercantile families, and each was fiercely devoted to the work at hand."
* 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 "Jewish Photographers genealogy project". geni_family_tree. Retrieved 2023-05-02.
* ↑ Bassman grew up in Brooklyn, NY, as a product of Jewish immigrants...
* ↑ "He was born into a middle-class Jewish family in Berlin..." The Telegraph, 18 MAY 2013
* ↑ 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) ISBN 978-0-306-81356-6
* 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 "Jews and Photography" Commentary Magazine
* ↑ Nat Fein, Jewish Virtual Library
* 1 2 3 Kaufman, David (2012). Jewhooing the Sixties. UPNE. p. 195. ISBN 9781611683158. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
* ↑ Jewish Women's Archive
* ↑ "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."
* ↑ "Jewish-American women photographers... including Nan Goldin..."
* ↑ The Jewish Museum
* ↑ "Action at a Distance: Einstein as Activist". Archived from the original on 2006-08-29. Retrieved 2006-05-18. "Einstein asks Nathan to rely on his connections to help Philippe Halsman, a Jewish man wrongly convicted..."
* ↑ "Jacobi, Lotte".
* ↑ https://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Kert%C3%A9sz]
* ↑ "I was a very clumsy Jewish kid."
* 1 2 "Do Jewish Photographers See the World Through a Different Lens?"
* ↑ "A Conversation With Gillian Laub." Albert, Elisa. www.tabletmag.com The Tablet. Published October 8, 2015. Accessed February 24, 2021.
* ↑ Biographies of Jewish Women Table of Contents
* ↑ "Helen Levitt, Ben Shahn, Lisette Model -- are or were Jewish"
* ↑ Daily Dish (April 12, 2004) "Madonna's Financial Request Upset McCartney", SF Gate.
* ↑ Jewish Virtual Library
* ↑ "Arnold Newman (1918–2006) in New York City to a relatively poor family of second-generation Jewish immigrants." Contemporary Jewish Museum
* ↑ Schinto, Jeanne (3 May 2001). "San Diego's MOPA and its indefatigable Arthur Ollman". San Diego Reader. San Diego Reader. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
* ↑ Religion of Man Ray, famous Jewish American artist
* ↑ Joe Rosenthal
* ↑ "Paul Schutzer".
* ↑ "Close Enough: Photography by David Seymour (Chim)". Archived from the original on 2006-04-18. Retrieved 2006-05-18. "his name to David Robert Seymour to make himself invisible as a Jewish photographer"
* ↑ Ben Crair (October 2013). "Stephen Shore Photography: American Surfaces to Uncommon Places". The New Republic. Retrieved 2019-05-03. Shore was born in New York City in 1947, the sole son of Jewish parents who ran a handbag company.
* ↑ "Shulman was born to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents in Brooklyn, New York..."
* ↑ "Commentary Magazine - Harlem Photographs: 1932-1940, by Aaron Siskind". Archived from the original on 2005-04-21. Retrieved 2006-05-18. "To Jewish socialists like Siskind, black people were to be seen only as potential allies in the..."
* ↑ McFadden, Robert D. (2014-12-15). "Phil Stern, Who Made Candid Images of War and Hollywood, Dies at 95". New York Times. Retrieved 2017-12-06.
* ↑ Marcel Sternberger Collection - Jewish Identity
* ↑ Jewish Art Education: Myrna Teck
* ↑ "Strand, a Jewish kid raised in a hothouse milieu of social and esthetic..."
* ↑ Kitty Kelley, Capturing Camelot, p. 4: "his grandfather was a rabbi who read him the Torah every day...."
* ↑ "second daughter of Reform Jewish parents" Jewish Women's Archive
* ↑ "Art |". Archived from the original on 2006-05-02. Retrieved 2006-05-18. "Weegee was a Ukrainian-Jewish immigrant whose family landed on New York's Lower East Side in 1910."
* ↑ "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."
* ↑ Sarah Booth Conroy (August 1992). "Kosher Cowboys: The Jews of Wyoming". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2019-05-03.