Ida Wyman
Ida Wyman at Burbank Airport, Los Angeles, 1950
Born
Ida Dora Wyman

(1926-03-07)March 7, 1926
Malden, Massachusetts, U.S.
DiedJuly 13, 2019(2019-07-13) (aged 93)
Fitchburg, Wisconsin, U.S.
OccupationPhotographer

Ida Dora Wyman (March 7, 1926 – July 13, 2019) was an American photographer best known for her documentary photography of New York street life.[1]

Early life

Wyman was born in Malden, Massachusetts on March 7, 1926.[1][2] She grew up in the Bronx, New York. Wyman began her photography career while she was in high school, by taking photos of her neighborhood.[3] Before becoming a photographer, Wyman had planned to be a nurse.[4]

Wyman can be heard as a contestant on the 15th November 1950 edition of You Bet Your Life.

Wyman died in Fitchburg, Wisconsin on Saturday, July 13, 2019.[5]

Work

Wyman was a member of New York City's Photo League.[6][7] During the 1940s and '50s, she shot over one hundred assignments for Life magazine.[2] Working from the west coast, she was often assigned to photograph movie stars on set, such as James Cagney in White Heat.[8]

By 1962 Wyman had given up professional photography, taking a job at Haskins Laboratories in New York. Manhattan. She returned to photography in 1968, as a pathology photographer in the department of medicine at Columbia University.[1] It was not until her 70s and 80s that she began to receive critical acclaim for her work.[1]

Her work is included in the permanent collection of the Jewish Museum, New York.[9]


References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Sandomir, Richard (July 19, 2019). "Ida Wyman, Whose Camera Captured Ordinary People, Dies at 93". The New York Times. Archived from the original on July 20, 2019. Retrieved July 20, 2019 – via NYTimes.com.
  2. 1 2 "Obituary: Ida Wyman, Photographer for Life, Chronicler of America, 93". PDN Online. July 18, 2019. Archived from the original on July 18, 2019. Retrieved July 20, 2019.
  3. ↑ Tucker, Anne (July 20, 2001). "This was the Photo League: Compassion and the Camera from the Depression to the Cold War". Stephen Daiter Gallery – via Google Books.
  4. ↑ "The Story Behind the Clock Set in a New York City Sidewalk - Bloomberg". Bloomberg News. Archived from the original on 2019-07-20. Retrieved 2019-07-20.
  5. ↑ "Monroe Gallery of Photography announced the death of photographer Ida Wyman". artdaily.com. Archived from the original on 2019-07-29. Retrieved 2019-07-20.
  6. ↑ Bezner, Lili Corbus (July 20, 1999). Photography and Politics in America: From the New Deal Into the Cold War. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 9780801861871 – via Google Books.
  7. ↑ Gilbert, Sarah (July 19, 2019). "The pioneering female photographer Ida Wyman – in pictures". The Guardian. Archived from the original on July 20, 2019. Retrieved July 20, 2019 – via www.theguardian.com.
  8. ↑ "Horizon". American Horizon. July 20, 1985 – via Google Books.
  9. ↑ "The Jewish Museum". thejewishmuseum.org. Archived from the original on 2016-09-24. Retrieved 2019-07-20.
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