Ida Wyman

Ida Dora Wyman (March 7, 1926 – July 13, 2019) was an American photographer best known for her documentary photography of New York street life.[1]

Ida Wyman
Ida Wyman at Burbank Airport, Los Angeles, 1950
Born
Ida Dora Wyman

(1926-03-07)March 7, 1926
Malden, Massachusetts, U.S.
DiedJuly 13, 2019(2019-07-13) (aged 93)
Fitchburg, Wisconsin, U.S.
OccupationPhotographer

Early life

Wyman was born in Malden, Massachusetts on March 7, 1926.[1][2] She grew up in the Bronx, New York. Wyman began her photography career while she was in high school, by taking photos of her neighborhood.[3] Before becoming a photographer, Wyman had planned to be a nurse.[4]

Wyman can be heard as a contestant on the 15th November 1950 edition of You Bet Your Life.

Wyman died in Fitchburg, Wisconsin on Saturday, July 13, 2019.[5]

Work

Wyman was a member of New York City's Photo League.[6][7] During the 1940s and '50s, she shot over one hundred assignments for Life magazine.[2] Working from the west coast, she was often assigned to photograph movie stars on set, such as James Cagney in White Heat.[8]

By 1962 Wyman had given up professional photography, taking a job at Haskins Laboratories in New York. Manhattan. She returned to photography in 1968, as a pathology photographer in the department of medicine at Columbia University.[1] It was not until her 70s and 80s that she began to receive critical acclaim for her work.[1]

Her work is included in the permanent collection of the Jewish Museum, New York.[9]


References
  1. Sandomir, Richard (July 19, 2019). "Ida Wyman, Whose Camera Captured Ordinary People, Dies at 93". The New York Times. Archived from the original on July 20, 2019. Retrieved July 20, 2019 – via NYTimes.com.
  2. "Obituary: Ida Wyman, Photographer for Life, Chronicler of America, 93". PDN Online. July 18, 2019. Archived from the original on July 18, 2019. Retrieved July 20, 2019.
  3. Tucker, Anne (July 20, 2001). "This was the Photo League: Compassion and the Camera from the Depression to the Cold War". Stephen Daiter Gallery – via Google Books.
  4. "The Story Behind the Clock Set in a New York City Sidewalk - Bloomberg". Bloomberg News. Archived from the original on 2019-07-20. Retrieved 2019-07-20.
  5. "Monroe Gallery of Photography announced the death of photographer Ida Wyman". artdaily.com. Archived from the original on 2019-07-29. Retrieved 2019-07-20.
  6. Bezner, Lili Corbus (July 20, 1999). Photography and Politics in America: From the New Deal Into the Cold War. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 9780801861871 – via Google Books.
  7. Gilbert, Sarah (July 19, 2019). "The pioneering female photographer Ida Wyman – in pictures". The Guardian. Archived from the original on July 20, 2019. Retrieved July 20, 2019 – via www.theguardian.com.
  8. "Horizon". American Horizon. July 20, 1985 – via Google Books.
  9. "The Jewish Museum". thejewishmuseum.org. Archived from the original on 2016-09-24. Retrieved 2019-07-20.
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