Herbert Migdoll
{{Short description|American artist (1934–2025)}}
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| name = Herbert Migdoll
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| image = Herbert Migdoll by n.a.gibson.jpg
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| caption = Migdoll in 2018
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1934|05|11}}
| birth_place = Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|2025|04|19|1934|05|11}}
| death_place = New York City, U.S.
| nationality = American
| education = New York University
MIT
Pratt Institute
Cooper Union
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| known_for = Photographer
Painter
| notable_works = Dancers Dancing
Swimmer300
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| awards = {{awd|Adolph Gottlieb Painting Award|2005 || |}}
{{awd|Vogelstien Painting Award|1989|}}
{{awd|NEA|1980|}}
{{awd|Fulbright|1968|}}
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Herbert Migdoll (May 11, 1934 – April 19, 2025) was an American painter, environmental installation artist and photographer who most notably served as the company photographer for The Joffrey Ballet, and later its design director, from 1968 to 2016.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/09/us/a-vibrant-career-at-the-ballet-but-with-a-lens-and-not-toeshoes.html|title=A Vibrant Career at the Ballet, but With a Lens and Not Toeshoes|first=Meribah|last=Knight|newspaper=The New York Times|date=8 October 2011|publisher=}} His work has been featured on the covers of LIFE,{{cite magazine|title=LIFE|magazine=LIFE|date=4 April 1969|volume=66|issue=13|pages=cover, 3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kk8EAAAAMBAJ&q=life+magazine+april+4+1969&pg=PA5|accessdate=11 January 2018}} TIME,{{cite magazine|title=TIME|magazine=TIME|date=15 March 1968|volume=91|issue=11|page=cover|url=https://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19680315,00.html|access-date=11 January 2018}} New York Times Magazine, Horizon, Saturday Review,{{cite journal|title=Saturday Review|journal=Saturday Review|date=7 October 1967|volume=L|issue=40|page=Cover}} Show Magazine,{{cite journal|title=Show|journal=Show Magazine|date=November 1963|pages=Cover}} Cue, USIA's America Magazine, and Dance Magazine. He is the author of the pictorial book Dancers Dancing. His work may be found in the collection of New York's Museum of Modern Art.https://www.moma.org/artists/3967-herbert-migdoll
Life and career
Migdoll was born on May 11, 1934, in Jersey City, New Jersey."United States, Census, 1950", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6F9T-Q773 : Tue Mar 19 17:01:53 UTC 2024), Entry for Herbert Migdoll (age 15) and Louis Migdoll, 24 April 1950.{{cite news|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/arts/dance/herbert-migdoll-dead.html|title = Herbert Migdoll, 90, Dies; Joffrey Ballet Photographer for Half- Century|last = Nossiter|first = Adam|date = June 2, 2025|accessdate = June 2, 2025|newspaper = The New York Times|url-access = limited}} He attended the Pratt Institute, studying under Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, before transferring to Cooper Union, graduating in 1957. https://cooperalumni.org/2015/04/herbert-migdoll-a57Additionally, he pursued undergraduate coursework at NYU and MIT.https://www.migdoll.com/artist.html He was granted a Fulbright scholarship in 1968 for photography research in Denmark.https://fulbrightscholars.org/grantee/herbert-migdoll
He was Art Director of Dance Magazine for 25 years.{{cite web|url=http://www.migdoll.com/artist.html|title=Herbert Migdoll|website=www.migdoll.com}} Migdoll died in the Bronx on April 19, 2025, at the age of 90.{{Cite web |date=2025-05-05 |title=Herbert Migdoll dead: Artist and longtime Joffrey Ballet photographer was 91 |url=https://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment-culture/2025/05/05/herbert-migdoll-dead-obituary-artist-joffrey-ballet-photographer |access-date=2025-05-09 |website=Chicago Sun-Times |language=en}}
References
{{Archival records|title=Herbert Migdoll|location=Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts|inventory_number=*MGZEB 21-0008|description_URL=https://archives.nypl.org/dan/185527|dates=1955-1989}}{{reflist}}
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