Great black and white photographers, PART 2

Arnold Newman was born in New York on March 3, 1918. He studied art at the University of Florida in 1936, for two years. Newman soon took up a job working for a photography studio, as their assistant. Newman then moved back to New York in 1946, after having his first exhibition there in 1941. At first, his photography just focused on other famous artists, but then eventually he opened up and started taking photos of more people like composers, scientists, and people in the political world.

When Newman took pictures of people he likes to make the setting something that reflected his subject's personality, or what they did. So if he was photographing a famous swimmer, he would most likely photograph him in a swimming pool or locker room. Newman became famous for this type of photography, and it was called environmental portraiture. Even though he often would take pictures in color, Newman's black and white photos are his most famous.

His most famous black and white photograph is of Igor Stravinsky, a famous piano player.

For many years, Arnold Newman taught photography at Cooper Union school of Science and Art in New York, until he passed away in the hospital on June 6, 2006.

A Portrait of Eugene Smith by Arnold Newman.