List of Jewish American photographers

This is a list of notable Jewish American photographers. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans.

Bruce Davidson

Annie Leibovitz

Joel Meyerowitz

Helmut Newton

Jerry Schatzberg

Stephen Shore

Penny Wolin

• Bob Adelman[1]
• Merry Alpern[2]
• Diane Arbus[3]
• Eve Arnold[4]
• Ellen Auerbach[5]
• Richard Avedon[6]
• Erwin Blumenfeld[7]
• Lynne Cohen[8]
• Ted Croner[9]
• Bruce Davidson[10][11]
• Alfred Eisenstaedt[12]
• Louis Faurer[13]
• Nat Fein[14]
• Barry Feinstein[15]
• Trude Fleischmann[16]
• Robert Frank[17][18]
• Leonard Freed[19]
• Nan Goldin[20]
• Milton H. Greene[21]
• Lauren Greenfield[22]
• Sid Grossman[23]
• Philippe Halsman[24]
• Don Hunstein[15]
• Lotte Jacobi[25]
• William Klein[26]
• Max Kozloff[27]
• Alma Lavenson[28]
• Annie Leibovitz[29]
• Saul Leiter[30]
• Leon Levinstein[31]
• Helen Levitt[32][33]
• Danny Lyon[34]
• Linda McCartney[35]
• Mary Ellen Mark[36]
• Jeff Mermelstein[37]
• Joel Meyerowitz[38]
• Lisette Model[39]
• Carl Mydans[40]
• Arnold Newman[41]
• Helmut Newton[42]
• Ruth Orkin[43]
• Man Ray[44]
• Joe Rosenthal[45]
• Arthur Rothstein[46]
• Steve Schapiro[47]
• Jerry Schatzberg[15]
• Paul Schutzer[48]
• David Seymour[49]
• Ben Shahn[50]
• Art Shay[51]
• Cindy Sherman[52]
• Stephen Shore[53]
• Julius Shulman[54]
• Aaron Siskind[55]
• Rosalind Fox Solomon[56]
• Phil Stern[57]
• Marcel Sternberger[58]
• Joel Sternfeld[59]
• Alfred Stieglitz[60]
• Ezra Stoller[61]
• Lou Stoumen[62]
• Paul Strand[63]
• Stanley Tretick[64]
• Doris Ulmann[65]
• Weegee[66]
• Dan Weiner[67]
• Garry Winogrand[68]
• Penny Wolin[69]
• Lillian Bassman[70]

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

Footnotes

1. "Meet the Jewish Photographers Who Helped Shape the Image of the Civil Rights Movement"
2. Jewish Women's Archive
3. "slight Jewish girl from a well-to-do Park Avenue family..."
4. "Arnold was born in Philadelphia to Russian immigrants (her father, William Cohen, was a rabbi)..."
5. Jewish Women's Archive
6. "Each was Jewish, each came from successful New York mercantile families, and each was fiercely devoted to the work at hand."
7. "He was born into a middle-class Jewish family in Berlin..." The Telegraph, 18 MAY 2013
8. Jewish Women's Archive
9. "Jews and Photography" Commentary Magazine
10. "Jews and Photography" Commentary Magazine
11. "Meet the Jewish Photographers Who Helped Shape the Image of the Civil Rights Movement"
13. "Jews and Photography" Commentary Magazine
14. [https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/nat-fein> Jewish Virtual Library
15. Kaufman, David (2012). Jewhooing the Sixties. UPNE. p. 195. ISBN 9781611683158. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
16. Jewish Women's Archive
17. "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."
18. "Meet the Jewish Photographers Who Helped Shape the Image of the Civil Rights Movement"
19. "Jews and Photography" Commentary Magazine
20. "Jewish-American women photographers... including Nan Goldin..."
21. "Jews and Photography" Commentary Magazine
22. Jewish Women's Archive
23. The Jewish Museum
24. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2006-08-29. Retrieved 2006-05-18.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "Einstein asks Nathan to rely on his connections to help Philippe Halsman, a Jewish man wrongly convicted..."
26. "I was a very clumsy Jewish kid."
27. "Do Jewish Photographers See the World Through a Different Lens?"
28. Jewish Women's Archive
29. Biographies of Jewish Women Table of Contents
30. "Jews and Photography" Commentary Magazine
31. "Jews and Photography" Commentary Magazine
32. "Helen Levitt, Ben Shahn, Lisette Model -- are or were Jewish"
33. Jewish Women's Archive
34. "Meet the Jewish Photographers Who Helped Shape the Image of the Civil Rights Movement"
35. "Her mother, the late Linda McCartney, was Jewish and friends say McCartney was "very open" to joining the alternative religion."
36. Jewish Virtual Library
37. "Jews and Photography" Commentary Magazine
38. "Jews and Photography" Commentary Magazine
39. Jewish Women's Archive
40. "Jews and Photography" Commentary Magazine
41. "Arnold Newman (1918–2006) in New York City to a relatively poor family of second-generation Jewish immigrants." Contemporary Jewish Museum
42. Lindsay Baker (May 2001). "Helmut Newton: a perverse romantic". The Guardian. Retrieved 2019-05-03. Being Jewish, the teenage Helmut and his parents fled Germany in 1938
43. Jewish Women's Archive
44. Religion of Man Ray, famous Jewish American artist
45. Joe Rosenthal
46. "Jews and Photography" Commentary Magazine
47. "Meet the Jewish Photographers Who Helped Shape the Image of the Civil Rights Movement"
49. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2006-04-18. Retrieved 2006-05-18.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "his name to David Robert Seymour to make himself invisible as a Jewish photographer"
50. "Jews and Photography" Commentary Magazine
51. "Meet the Jewish Photographers Who Helped Shape the Image of the Civil Rights Movement"
52. "Jews and Photography" Commentary Magazine
53. 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.
54. "Shulman was born to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents in Brooklyn, New York..."
55. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2005-04-21. Retrieved 2006-05-18.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "To Jewish socialists like Siskind, black people were to be seen only as potential allies in the..."
56. Jewish Women's Archive
57. 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.
58. Marcel Sternberger Collection - Jewish Identity
59. "Jews and Photography" Commentary Magazine
60. Jewish Art Education: Myrna Teck
61. "Jews and Photography" Commentary Magazine
62. "Do Jewish Photographers See the World Through a Different Lens?"
63. "Strand, a Jewish kid raised in a hothouse milieu of social and esthetic..."
64. Kitty Kelley, Capturing Camelot, p. 4: "his grandfather was a rabbi who read him the Torah every day...."
65. "second daughter of Reform Jewish parents" Jewish Women's Archive
66. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2006-05-02. Retrieved 2006-05-18.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "Weegee was a Ukrainian-Jewish immigrant whose family landed on New York's Lower East Side in 1910."
67. "Jews and Photography" Commentary Magazine
68. "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."
69. Sarah Booth Conroy (August 1992). "Kosher Cowboys: The Jews of Wyoming". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2019-05-03.
70. Bassman grew up in Brooklyn, NY, as a product of Jewish immigrants...