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Alfred newman photo11/19/2023 ![]() The following year, Newman moved from Miami to New York, opened his own studio, and became a member of the American Society of Magazine Photographers. In 1945, a solo show titled “Artists Look Like This” was exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and attracted national attention. In 1941, Beaumont Newhall-the first director of the photography department at the Museum of Modern Art at the time-and Alfred Stieglitz discovered his work and gave him an exhibition at the A.D. While socializing with students at what was then called the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Arts, he was introduced to an experimental approach to portraiture encouraged by Alexey Brodovitch, the influential art director of Harper’s Bazaar who was teaching there at the time. He began his career in photography working at portrait studios in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and West Palm Beach, while making abstract and documentary photographs on his own. He was given a scholarship to study art at the University of Miami from 1936 to 1938. He is also known for his carefully composed, abstract still lifes.īorn in New York City, Newman grew up in Atlantic City, New Jersey and Miami Beach, Florida. Though this approach is commonplace today, his technique was highly unconventional in the 1930s when began shooting his subjects as such. ![]() With his method of portraiture, he placed his sitters in surroundings representative of their professions, aiming to capture the essence of an individual’s life and work. ![]() Arnold Newman (1918-2006) is widely renowned for pioneering and popularizing the environmental portrait. ![]()
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