Ed Feingersh
Ed Feingersh | |
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Ed Feingersh photographed by ©Julia Scully in NYC, 1952 | |
| Born | Edwin Feingersh April 21, 1925 Brooklyn, New York City, U.S. |
| Died | June 21, 1961, aged 36 Manhattan, New York City, U.S. |
| Other names | Edward, Eddie |
| Education | New School of Social Research |
| Occupation | Photojournalist |
| Agent | PIX Publishing |
| Spouse(s) | Miriam Sakol (b.1933), m.1957, annulled 1957 |
Ed Feingersh (1925–1961) studied photography under Alexey Brodovitch at the New School of Social Research. He later worked as a photojournalist for the Pix Publishing agency. His talent for available light photography under seemingly impossible conditions was well recognised. His pictures of Marilyn Monroe are his best known, but he was a prolific photojournalist throughout the 1950s. Two of his moody photographs of jazz performers were selected by Edward Steichen for MoMA's world-touring The Family of Man exhibition.