Barbara Morgan Born in Buffalo, Kansas, Barbara Morgan moved with her family to California shortly after her birth. She studied at UCLA, then became an art teacher. She moved to New York City in 1930 with her husband Willard Morgan. It was only after the birth of a...
Wright Morris The distinguished author of over thirty novels and volumes of short stories, essays, and criticism, Wright Morris was also a gifted photographer. A pioneer in the 1930s of what he termed the “photo-text,” Morris combined his skills as a...
MARVIN NEWMAN Marvin E. Newman was born and raised in the Bronx and studied sculpture and photography with Walter Rosenblum at Brooklyn College. In 1948, Newman briefly joined the Photo League where he took classes with John Ebstel. He moved to Chicago in 1949 to...
MICKEY PALLAS In the mid-1940s Mickey Pallas began to photograph weddings and labor union activities. By the 1950s, Pallas’s clientele expanded to include Standard Oil of Indiana, ABC-TV, Ebony magazine, the Harlem Globetrotters, and several black churches on...
