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1913
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Born August 31 in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, NY.
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1931
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Began working for J. Florian Mitchell, a commercial portrait photographer in the Bronx.
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1935
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Met Henri Cartier-Bresson when he spent a year in New York.
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1936
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Bought a secondhand Leica, the camera Cartier-Bresson favored.
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1939
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Had her first work published in Fortune Magazine's issue on New York City.
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1940
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Her her Halloween picture was included in the inaugural exhibition of the Museum of Modern Art’s photography department.
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1943
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Has her first solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.
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1959
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Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship.
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1960
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Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship.
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2009
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Died in her home in Manhattan on March 29, at age 95.
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1997 |
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International Center of Photography, NY |
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1997 |
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Center for Creative Photography, Arizona |
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1996 |
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Highlights of the Permanent Collection, International Center of Photography, NY |
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1996 |
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Recent Acquisitions, Metropolitain Museum of Art, NY |
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1995 |
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American Photography 1890-1965, Museum of Modern Art NY(traveled) |
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1992 |
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SF Museum of Modern Art & other locations in San Francisco, NY, Washington DC, Michigan, Chicago, & Seattle |
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1992 |
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Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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1991 |
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Mean Streets, Museum of Modern Art, NY |
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1989 |
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On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: 150 Years of Photography, National Gallery of Art & Art Institute of Chicago Washington, DC & Chicago |
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1988 |
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Convulsive Beauty, Whitney Museum of Art, Downtown NY |
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1988 |
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Photographers Gallery, London |
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1986 |
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Photography: A Facet of Modernism, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (catalog) San Francisco |
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1984 |
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Photographs from the Collection of the Nat'l Endowment for the Arts, National Museum of American Art Washington, DC |
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1983 |
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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1980 |
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Corcoran Gallery of Art (catalog), Washington, DC |
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1974 |
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Museum of Modern Art, NY |
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1943 |
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Museum of Modern Art, NY |
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Links to further information |
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