Walter rosenblum biography

Walter A. Rosenblum (1919–2006) was an.
Walter Rosenblum was an influential photographer for over fifty years, as well as an important figure in the advancement of twentieth century photography.
Walter A. Rosenblum was an American photographer whose work spanned the decades from 1938-1980.

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Walter and Naomi Rosenblum Collection of Photography and Photographic History

Walter A. Rosenblum (1919–2006) was an American photographer born in New York City. He was introduced to documentary photography early in his career as a member of the Photo League, which was a cooperative of New York based photographers focused on socially conscious photography. While part of the League, he became friends with notable photographers Paul Strand and Lewis Hine. Walter served as the Photo League's secretary, became editor of the organization's journal (Photo Notes), and in 1941, he became president of the Photo League. During World War II, Walter was a member of the U.S. Army Signal Corp Combat Unit. He photographed the American D-Day landings at Omaha Beach in Normandy in 1944, filmed General Patton's advance across France and Germany, and finally, he was one of the first Allied photographers to enter the liberated Dachau concentration camp. After the war, Walter began teaching photography at Brooklyn College's Art Department. He also taught for several years at Cooper Union and Yale's S

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CURRENTLY ON VIEW:

The Photographer Walter Rosenblum: Some Kind of Respect

By David Walsh
5 June 1998

Walter Rosenblum, Photographs:
A Retrospective Exhibition
At the Godwin-Ternbach Museum,
Queens College, New York City
April 20-May 29, 1998

Walter Rosenblum, the American photographer, was born in 1919. The child of Romanian Jewish parents, he grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. As a teenager in 1937 he joined the New York Photo League, a left-wing group. There he met Lewis Hines, the famous photographer of immigrants and factory workers, and Paul Strand, one of the greatest photographic artists of the mid-century, who became his mentor and friend.

A recent show at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum at Queens College in New York City displayed 70 of Rosenblum's photographs. An accompanying video included interviews with the photographer and scenes of him taking pictures and visiting his old neighborhood. The death of his mother at a relatively early age, he explains, was a devastating blow. The qualities he cherished in her, he goes on, are to be found "in a

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Walter Rosenblum

American photographer

Walter A. Rosenblum (1919–2006) was an American photographer whose work spanned the decades from 1938-1980. He photographed the World War IID-Day landing at Normandy in 1944, fought through France and Germany, and he was among the first Allied photographers to enter the liberated Dachau concentration camp.^[1] One of the most highly decorated U.S. Army Signal Corps combat cameramen, Rosenblum received military decorations including a Silver Star, Bronze Star, Purple Heart, Presidential Unit Citation, 4 Battle Stars and an Arrowhead Device. His photography is in collections of museums around the world.^[2]

Biography

Rosenblum was born on October 1, 1919, in New York City.^[2]

Rosenblum was a member of the New York Photo League where he was mentored by Paul Strand.^[3] He became president of the League in 1941.^[4] He taught photography at Brooklyn College for 40 years.^[3]

From 1952 to 1976, he spent summers in Norfolk, CT, as a professor at the Yale Summer School of Music