Walter Rosenblum

Walter A. Rosenblum (1919–2006) was an American photographer whose work spanned the decades from 1938-1980. He photographed the World War II D-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.{{Cite web|url= https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/01/arts/photography-review-tender-witness-to-the-togetherness-of-people-in-want.html |title= PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW; Tender Witness to the Togetherness of People in Want |last= Cotter |first= Holland |work= The New York Times |date= May 1, 1998 |accessdate= March 11, 2014}} 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.{{Cite web|url= http://www.rosenblumphoto.org/about |title= Walter Rosenblum Biography |accessdate= March 11, 2014}}

Biography

Rosenblum was born on October 1, 1919, in New York City. He attended City College.Walter Rosenblum: Photographer. Dresden: Kunstverlag Weingarten, Verlag der Kunst, 1990

Rosenblum was a member of the New York Photo League where he was mentored by Paul Strand.{{Cite web|url= http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=3511&page=1 |title= Walter Rosenblum |publisher= J. Paul Getty Museum |accessdate= March 11, 2014}} He became president of the League in 1941.{{Cite web|url= http://www.alba-valb.org/exhibits/walter_rosenblum_spanish_refugees |title= Scenes of Bravery and Determination: Walter Rosenblum's Homage to the Spanish Republicans |publisher= Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives |accessdate= March 11, 2014}} He taught photography at Brooklyn College for 40 years.

From 1952 to 1976, he spent summers in Norfolk, CT, as a professor at the Yale Summer School of Music and Art, where he taught photography.

His wife was groundbreaking photographic historian Naomi Rosenblum, author of THE WORLD HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY and A HISTORY OF WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS (Abbeville Press). They had two daughters, Lisa, a telecommunications executive and documentary producer/director Nina.{{Cite web|url= http://www.josephdisante.com/article.aspx?pg=oscar%20award%20winning%20director%20-%20nina%20rosenblum |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071211092415/http://www.josephdisante.com/article.aspx?pg=Oscar%20Award%20Winning%20Director%20-%20Nina%20Rosenblum |url-status= usurped |archive-date= December 11, 2007 |title= Walter Rosenblum: In Search Of Pitt Street |last= DiSante |first= Joseph |accessdate= March 11, 2014}}

Rosenblum died January 23, 2006.{{Cite web|url= https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A02E1DA103FF936A15752C0A9609C8B63 |title= Paid Notice: Deaths ROSENBLUM, WALTER |date= January 25, 2006 |accessdate= March 11, 2014 |work= The New York Times}}

Collections

The J. Paul Getty Museum
The Museum of Modern Art{{Cite web|url= http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=5020 |title= Walter Rosenblum}} The Museum of Modern Art

Awards and honors

Lifetime achievement award - International Center of Photography (1998)

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References

External links

[http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/fales/mss_556/ Walter and Naomi Rosenblum Collection of Photography and Photographic History], Fales Library and Special Collections at New York University Special Collections{{Authority control}}

Category:1919 births

Category:2006 deaths

Category:20th-century American photographers

Category:Brooklyn College faculty

Category:Recipients of the Silver Star