William Gottlieb

william gottlieb William Gottlieb’s remarkable ability to show the soul and energy of jazz goes back to his roots as a journalist for The Washington Post. Covering music in his weekly column, Gottlieb traveled with the Big Bands and frequented Harlem’s legendary jazz...

Rosalie Gwathmey

Rosalie Gwathmey   Born in Charlotte, NC, Rosalie Gwathmey studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts before taking up photography in the late 1930s. After she and her husband, painter Robert Gwathmey, moved to New York in 1942, she became a member...

Eugene Harris

EUGENE HARRIS Eugene Harris grew up in Minnesota and received a Bachelor of Education degree in 1937 from the State Teachers’ College in Moorhead, MN. He joined the Foreign Services in 1944 and became the Asst. Agricultural Attache in Buenos Aires, Argentina in...

Lewis Hine

LEWIS HINE   For American photographer Lewis Wickes Hine, photography was a tool to “show things that had to be corrected.” At the beginning of the 20th century, he realized the storytelling power of documentary photography, and his images of children working in...