Robert Funk Fine Art

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Robert Funk Fine Art

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Arnold Newman

(American, 1918 – 2006)
Arnold Newman was a celebrated American photographer known for his environmental portraits of artists and celebrities such as Pablo Picasso, Igor Stravinsky, and Marilyn Monroe. “There are many things that are very false about photography when it is accepted without question,” he once explained. “You must recognize and interpret it as you would any other art form, and then maybe it is a little more than real.” Born on March 3, 1918 in New York, NY, he grew up between Atlantic City and Miami, and went on to study at the University of Miami on scholarship for two years. He left school and moved to Philadelphia, where he worked as a 49-cent portrait photographer. Newman relocated to New York in 1946, and shortly thereafter...