An exhibition by Ruth Orkin, an outstanding U.S. photographer of the 20th century, opens on December 8 at the Lumière Brothers Center for Photography.
An exhibition by Ruth Orkin, an outstanding U.S. photographer of the 20th century, opens on December 8 at the Lumière Brothers Center for Photography. Photo: Boy Jumping into the Hudson River, 1948.
Portraits of celebrities are displayed among other photographs. Photo: Alfred Hitchcock at the filming of I Confess, Hollywood, 1952.
… Residents of New York, the city where Orkin’s professional career began. Photo: Best Friends, New York, 1947.
Orkin received her surname from her father, a manufacturer of toy ships, Samuel Orkin, who had a Russian background. At the age of 22, Ruth moved to New York. There she started working at nightclubs and began taking photos of children. Photo: Comic Book Readers, New York, 1947.
By the late 1940s, Ruth had worked for many leading U.S. magazines including Life, Look, Horizon, Ladies Home Journal. Photo: Marlon Brando at the filming of Julius Caesar, Hollywood, 1948.
Orkin’s visit to the famous music festival Tanglewood gave the world a series of wonderful portraits of great musicians, including Leonard Bernstein. Photo: Leonard Bernstein and Marian Anderson at Lewisohn Stadium, New York, 1947.
Woody Allen at Metropolitan Museum, New York, 1963.
In 1951, Ruth toured Italy, where she typically photographed day-to-day scenes. Photo: Two U.S. tourists, Italy, 1951.
In 1959, Orkin alongside with such stars of photography as Dorothea Lange and Margaret Bourke-White was named one of the top women photographers in the United States. Photo: Couple in an MG car, Italy, 1951.
Albert Einstein, Princeton, New Jersey, 1953.
Apart from photography, Ruth Orkin was involved in filmmaking. She and her husband, photographer and director Morris Engel, made two feature films, one of which, The Little Fugitive, was nominated for an Oscar in 1953. Photo: A Man in the Rain, New York, 1952.
Mother and Daughter at Penn Station, New York, 1947.
