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Arts > Photo > USA > Arthur Leipzig 1928-2014
“Bracero Shapeup, Calexico, 1958.”
Taking on assignments for a variety of publications, Mr. Leipzig sometimes encountered perils in his work.
A cobra once slithered into his shower in Sudan.
Arthur Leipzig, courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery.
Arthur Leipzig, a Photographer Inspired by Everyday Life in New York, Dies at 96 By DOUGLAS MARTIN NYT DEC. 5, 2014
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/06/nyregion/
Arthur Leipzig 1928-2014
(born Isidore Leipzig)
documentary photographer known for his crisp, detailed, emotionally provocative images, particularly those of children at play on the streets and piers of mid-20th-century New York City
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Mr. Leipzig (pronounced LIPE-zig) was one of the last surviving members of a generation of socially minded photographers — others included Helen Levitt, Roy DeCarava, Jerome Liebling and Gordon Parks — who took to the streets to record life as they encountered it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/06/nyregion/
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/06/nyregion/
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