Sandra Weiner

Sandra Weiner (1921–2014) was a Polish-American street photographer and children's book author.[1]

Weiner was born in Sandra Smith in Drohiczan, Poland, and emigrated to the United States in 1928.[1][2] She joined the Photo League in 1942. There, she first studied under photographers Paul Strand and Dan Weiner; she would later marry Weiner.[3][4][5] Following the dissolution of the Photo league in 1951, she was a commercial photographer in the 1950s and later wrote four published children's books.[6][7]

Collections

Weiner's work is held in the following permanent collections:

Her personal papers are held in the University of Minnesota libraries.[11]

Children's books
  • It's Wings That Make Birds Fly (1968)[4][12]
  • Small Hands, Big Hands (1970)[4]
  • They Call Me Jack (1973)[4]
  • I Want to be a Fisherman (1977)[13][14]
gollark: *You wouldn't download a carSo why would you download an egg?*
gollark: We must do away with the sexist repression of gender-locked holidays!
gollark: Does the game ever actually explicitly mention Christmas anywhere as opposed to "holiday"?
gollark: NOOOOOO but also congratulations!
gollark: https://dragcave.net/view/u0DNq is around the current AP time!

References
  1. "Sandra Weiner". 2019-09-02.
  2. Tucker, Anne (2001). "This was the Photo League: Compassion and the Camera from the Depression to the Cold War".
  3. Gonzalez, David (2018-08-02). "The Radical Empathy of Dan Weiner". The New York Times.
  4. Mickenberg, Julia A. (November 2008). Tales for Little Rebels: A Collection of Radical Children's Literature. ISBN 9780814757208.
  5. Aperture (1988). Aperture 112: The Storyteller. ISBN 9780893812867.
  6. Rosenblum, Naomi (2010). "A History of Women Photographers".
  7. Whyte, Padraic; O'Sullivan, Keith (2014-01-10). Children's Literature and New York City. ISBN 9781135923006.
  8. "Sandra Weiner · SFMOMA".
  9. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/266703
  10. "Easter Morning, Ninth Avenue - Online Collection - Akron Art Museum".
  11. "Collection: Sandra Weiner Papers | University of Minnesota Archival Collections Guides".
  12. "Book World". Washington Post Newspaper. December 7, 1968 – via Google Books.
  13. "Fishing: An Introduction to Fishing for Fun and Food for Blind and Physically Handicapped Individuals". 1988.
  14. Smith, Jessie Carney (December 7, 1988). "Images of Blacks in American Culture: ˜aœ Reference Guide to Information Sources". Greenwood Press – via Google Books.


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