Herman Mishkin

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Herman Mishkin (March 1870 – February 6, 1948) was a Russian-American photographer in Manhattan, New York City. He specialized in photographing opera singers.{{cite web|url=http://blog.tribunephotos.com/ |title=Herman Mishkin |access-date=November 18, 2012 |quote=Herman Mishkin was the foremost portrayer of Golden Era opera singers. |publisher=Chicago Tribune |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121215115759/http://blog.tribunephotos.com/ |archive-date=December 15, 2012 }} Mishkin was born in Minsk, Russian Empire in March 1870. He migrated to the United States in 1885. He bought a camera and started taking photographs in the 1880s.{{cite encyclopedia |encyclopedia = Broadway Photographers |title=Herman Mishkin |url=http://broadway.cas.sc.edu/index.php?action=showPhotographer&id=62 |publisher=University of South Carolina |date=December 31, 1980 |access-date=November 17, 2012 }} He married and had a son, Leo Mishkin.{{cite news |title=Leo Mishkin, Reviewed Movies, Theater and TV |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1980/12/31/archives/leo-mishkin-reviewed-movies-theater-and-tv.html |quote=Born in New York the son of Herman Mishkin, photographer of the Metropolitan Opera from 1905 to 1932, Mr. Mishkin began his career as an office boy in the ... |newspaper=New York Times |date=December 31, 1980 |access-date=November 17, 2012 }} He died on February 6, 1948.{{cite news |title=Herman Mishkin, 77, Opera Photographer |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1948/02/07/archives/herman-mishkin-77-opera-photographer.html |quote=Herman Mishkin, retired photographer who did much work for the Metropolitan Opera Company, died yesterday in his home, 139 West Eighty-second Street, after ... |newspaper=New York Times |date=February 7, 1948 |access-date=November 17, 2012 }}