Larry Silver
Larry Silver (born 1934) is an American photographer. While a student at the High School of Industrial Art in Manhattan he met members of the Photo League, among them Lou Bernstein, W. Eugene Smith and Weegee. He won a first prize in the Scholastic-Ansco Photography Awards, and a scholarship to the Art Center School in Los Angeles.
Larry Silver
- Born
- 1934 · The Bronx.
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- photographer · artist · painter
- Education
- High School of Art and Design
- Honours
- Guggenheim Fellowship
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Larry Silver (born 1934) is an American photographer. While a student at the High School of Industrial Art in Manhattan he met members of the Photo League, among them Lou Bernstein, W. Eugene Smith and Weegee. He won a first prize in the Scholastic-Ansco Photography Awards, and a scholarship to the Art Center School in Los Angeles.
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Larry Silver (born 1934) is an American artist, painter and photographer. The artist was born in The Bronx.
Larry Silver studied at High School of Art and Design. The artist is a member of American Society of Media Photographers and Photo League and worked in New York City and Westport.
Works by Larry Silver are held at Columbus Museum of Art, George Eastman Museum and High Museum of Art, among others. The artist received Guggenheim Fellowship.
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Silver takes black-and-white photographs, mainly documenting the places he has lived: Santa Monica Beach, California; New York City; and Westport, Connecticut. Silver's work is in various museum collections including those of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the George Eastman House, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. His work has been shown in many solo and group exhibitions.
Larry Silver studied at High School of Art and Design. Places of work recorded in the authority are New York City and Westport. Work by Larry Silver is recorded in the collections of Smithsonian American Art Museum, George Eastman Museum, International Center of Photography, Housatonic Museum of Art and High Museum of Art. Distinctions recorded are Guggenheim Fellowship.
Larry Silver is recorded with the occupation photographer. Recorded as photographer, artist and painter.
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1934
Larry Silver was born on 1 January 1934.
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Larry Silver worked at New York City. Silver worked at Westport. Recorded as having studied at High School of Art and Design.
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Larry Silver received Guggenheim Fellowship.
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- 1.Larry Silver . International Center of Photography. Accessed May 2014.
- 2.Dominic Mariani (December 12, 2002). Silver plated. The Sunday Hour. Accessed May 2014.
- 3.Collections Search: Larry Silver. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Accessed May 2014.
- 4.Headstand, Muscle Beach, Santa Monica, California, 1954: Larry Silver (United States, North America); accession number 91.75 . Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Accessed May 2014.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 8
- Larry Silver (1985). Muscle Beach, California 1954. New York: International Center for Photography.
- Ann Clements Borum (1991). 10,000 Eyes: The American Society of Magazine Photographers' Celebration of the 150th Anniversary of Photography. [Rochester, NY]: Professional Photography Division, Eastman Kodak Company.
- Ellen Dugan (1992). This Sporting Life: 1878–1991. Atlanta, GA: High Museum of Art.
- Vicki Goldberg, Robert B Silberman (1999). American photography: a century of images. San Francisco, California: Chronicle Books.
- Anne Tucker (2001). This was the Photo League: Compassion and the camera from the Depression to the Cold War. Chicago: Stephen Daiter Gallery.
- [s.n.] (2002). Larry Silver: Suburban Vision. New York: Bruce Silverstein Gallery.
- Reuel Golden (2010). New York: Portrait of a City. Köln: Taschen.
- Mason Klein, Catherine Evans (2011). The Radical Camera: New York's Photo League, 1936-1951. New York: The Jewish Museum and New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press.
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