Peter B. Martin

American photographer and publisher From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Peter B. Martin, Sr. (1915–1992) was an American photographer and publisher. Martin was one of the top[citation needed] New York City publishing photographers in the 1950s, with work published in Mademoiselle,[1] Cosmopolitan,[2][3] Life,[4] and McCall's.[5]

From the late 1940s to the 1960s, he was a fashion photographer and photojournalist. He photographed many celebrities including Frank Sinatra,[6] Bunk Johnson, Edgar Bergen,[7] Imogene Coca,[8] Edward R Murrow,[9] Arthur Schlesinger, Jr,[10] Leonard Bernstein,[11] Eleanor Roosevelt,[5] Natalie Wood, James Dean, Vera Zorina, Kim Novak, Ann Francis, Sheree North, Walt Disney, Jack Webb,[3] the Allman Brothers, Jim Morrison, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, The Grateful Dead and Janis Joplin.[12] In addition to his photography, Martin published periodicals about photography (Figure[13] and Photography Workshop[14]) during the early 1950s, and in the late 1950s and 1960s he published television and music magazines (Movie Teen Illustrated[citation needed] and Pop Rock[12]).

Photography Workshop

New York was a photojournalism mecca in the 1950s, and Peter Martin's "studio 61" at 286 Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village, New York, was a gathering place for many photographers at that time.[citation needed] Many contributed to the Photography Workshop publication, which was devoted to the photographer's work, techniques, equipment and art.

Photography Workshop Summer 1950 contents

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Editor: Peter Martin; Associate Editors: Fred Sparks, Joan Marsh, Fred Lyon

  • Technical Story of the Year
  • Parlor, Bedlam and Flashbulb
  • Photo-Journalism
  • The Case History of A Picture Story "Fairy Tale On Fifth Avenue"
  • Fashion Photography
  • The Ford Girls
  • Portrait Photography
  • Figure Photography (Fred Lyon)
  • The Reluctant Photographer
  • The Photographer in Europe (by Fred Sparks)
  • The Child as a Photographic Subject
  • A Subject Eyes The Photographer
  • Four Picture Assignments
  • Circle of Confusion (photos by Peter Martin)

Photography Workshop Fall 1950 contents

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  • The Photographer's Story
  • Press Photography
  • Voodoo Photography (Earl Leaf)
  • The LIfe, Times and Photographs of Halsman
  • Thumbnail Photographs 1935–1950
  • Damascus: An Early Picture HIstory
  • Philippe & The Rita
  • Portraits
  • 42 Life Magazine Halsman Covers
  • Theatre and Dance
  • Salvador Dalí
  • Model "t" Fashion Photography
  • Halsman Technique
  • Figure Photography
  • Anatomic props

Photography Workshop Fall 1951 contents

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