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American photographer (1926–2019)

Born

Ida Dora Wyman

(1926-03-07)March 7, 1926

DiedJuly 13, 2019(2019-07-13) (aged 93)

OccupationPhotographer

Ida Wyman
Ida Wyman at Burbank Airport, Los Angeles, 1950
Born	Ida Dora Wyman (1926-03-07)March 7, 1926 Malden, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died	July 13, 2019(2019-07-13) (aged 93) Fitchburg, Wisconsin, U.S.
Occupation	Photographer

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]

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 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.
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.
↑ 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.
↑ "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.
↑ "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.
↑ 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.
↑ 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.
↑ "Horizon". American Horizon. July 20, 1985 – via Google Books.
↑ "The Jewish Museum". thejewishmuseum.org. Archived from the original on 2016-09-24. Retrieved 2019-07-20.

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