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Biography |
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1917 |
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Born: June 16, Plainfield, New Jersey |
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1934 - 1938 |
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Enrolled at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art, where he studied design with Alexey Brodovitch |
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1938 - 1941 |
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Worked as a graphic artist in New York |
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1941 - 1942 |
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Spent a year painting in Mexico |
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1943 - 1944 |
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Designer and photographer for Vogue magazine, New York |
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1944 - 1945 |
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Served as an ambulance driver and documentary photographer in the American Field Service with the British Army in Italy and India |
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1946 |
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Photographer, working with Alexander Liberman for Conde Nast Publications, New York |
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1952 |
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Freelance advertising photographer, New York |
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1958 |
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Named one of "The World’s 10 Greatest Photographers" in an international poll conducted by Popular Photography Magazine |
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Exhibitions |
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2008 |
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Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York (solo) |
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2008 |
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Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME |
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2008 |
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Tate modern, London |
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2007 |
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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2007 |
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HackelBury Fine Art Limited, London |
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2006 |
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Palais des Beaux-Arts / Bozar, Bruxelles |
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2005 |
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Fondation Beyeler, Riehen |
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2005 |
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ICP International Center of Photography, New York |
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2004 |
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Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA |
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2004 |
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Langhans Galerie Praha, Praha |
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2002 |
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HAMILTONS GALLERY, London (solo) |
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2000 |
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Retrospective, MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York (solo) |
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1997 |
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Retrospective, STATE HERITAGE , St.Petersburg, Russia (organised by Art Institute of Chicago; toured museums internationally for several years) (solo) |
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1995 |
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HAMILTONS GALLERY, London (solo) |
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1993 |
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HAMILTONS GALLERY, London (solo) |
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1991 |
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HAMILTONS GALLERY, London (solo) |
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1990 |
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NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART and National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C. (solo) |
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1984 - 1987 |
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Retrospective, MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York (toured the U.S.A. & Europe) (solo) |
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1985 |
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VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM, London (toured Britain) |
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1984 |
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VISION GALLERY, Boston (solo) |
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1983 |
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MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York |
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1982 |
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MARLBOROUGH GALLERY , New York (solo) |
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1981 |
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FERENS ART GALLERY, Yorkshire (travelled to the Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester; Cooper Gallery, Barnsley; Castle Museum, Nottingham; Photographers' Gallery, London) |
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1981 |
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MARLBOROUGH FINE ART, London (solo) |
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1980 |
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MARLBOROUGH GALLERY, New York (solo) |
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1979 |
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TIROLER LANDESMUSEUM, Innsbruck, Austria (travelled to the Nueu Galerie am Wolfgang Gurlitt Museum, Linz, Austria; Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria; & Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna) |
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1978 |
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MODERNA MUSEET, Stockholm |
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1977 |
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INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM of PHOTOGRAPHY, Rochester, New York (travelling to the Brooklyn Museum, NY; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Cincinnati Art Institute, Ohio; & Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg) |
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1977 |
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METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, New York (solo) |
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1976 |
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Masters of the Camera, American Federation of the Arts travelling exhibition |
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1975 |
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JEWETT ARTS CENTER, Wellesley College, Massachusetts |
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1975 |
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GALLERIA CIVICA D'ARTE MODERNA, Turin (solo) |
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1967 - 1973 |
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NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA, Ottawa (toured Canada & U.S.A.) |
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1963 |
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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE , Washington D.C. (solo) |
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1961 |
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MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York, travelling exhibition (toured the U.S.A.) (solo) |
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1955 |
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MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York |
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