Shahn was a Lithuanian-born Jewish American artist. He is best known for his works of social realism, his left-wing political views, and his series of lectures published as The Shape of Content.
Cindy Sherman is a Jewish American photographer and film director, best known for her conceptual portraits. Sherman currently lives and works in New York City. In 1995, she was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. She is represented by Sprüth Magers Berlin London in Europe and Metro Pictures gallery in New York.
French avant-garde photographer who was born Lucy Schwob, in 1894. She came from a famous French intellectual family. She and her lover (she was gay) were imprisoned for trying to incite a mutiny of the German troops on the isle of Jersey, where she resided.
Chim (pronounced shim, an abbreviation of the surname Szymin) was the pseudonym of David Seymour, a Polish photographer and photojournalist. Born Dawid Szymin in Warsaw to Polish Jewish parents, he became interested in photography while studying in Paris. He began working as a freelance journalist in 1933.
Famous photographer of disturbing images. She started as a fashion photographer with her husband, Allan Arbus. After they divorced, in 1969, she went on to do the work that made her famous. She committed suicide in 1971.
Famous fashion and art photographer. Born in Germany to a wealthy family, he escaped to France and barely made it to the States. Top fashion photographer for "Harpers Bizzare" and others in the 40s and 50s; also noted for his photography of nudes.
Famous photographer who almost defined the term "street photographer". Took gritty photos of real life, mostly in New York. Died in 1984.
Photographer, reknowned for fashion and erotic photography with a unique sensibility of Eurotrash decadence. Born Helmet Neustader, he left Germany for Australia and then England.
Famed celebrity photographer. His work is exhibited in many museums.
Pissarro was a landscape painter, printmaker, wood engraver and designer and printer of fine books. His landscape paintings employ techniques of Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism, but he also exhibited with Les XX. Apart from his landscapes he painted only a few still-lifes and family portraits. Until 1890 he worked in France, but thereafter was based in Britain.
Agam is a 20th Century Israeli abstract artist. Best know for compositions like Transparent rhythm in which the pattern changes depending on the angle at which you view it. A fountain/sculpture based on this concept stands on Dizengoff Square in Tel-Aviv.
was a sculptor whose trademark is plaster human figures in various situations. Perhaps best known for the figures at the US Holocaust Museum.
is an American sculptor and painter. He immigrated to the United States in 1974 and has since lived and worked in New York. Developing several individualistic styles in modern art, he is most famous for his unique work in terra cotta sculpture, involving heavily perforated surfaces and intriguing forms.
is an Israeli sculptor best known for site specific memorials and monuments which merge into the environment, though he has made important installations as well as other significant contributions to art and architecture.
Kirby was the creator of Spider-Man, Captain America, The Hulk, The Fantastic Four, among other Marvel creations. Stan Lee of Marvel is Jewish, as well.
Siskind was a Jewish American abstract expressionist photographer. In his biography he wrote that he began his foray into photography when he received a camera for a wedding gift and began taking pictures on his honeymoon. He quickly realized the artistic potential this offered. He worked in both New York City and Chicago.
As a cofounder and chairman of Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, A. Eugene Kohn has led many of the firm’s most complex and high-profile projects, developing the firm’s reputation as one of the world’s preeminent architectural practices.
