Morris Huberland
Morris Huberland (1909–2003) was a Polish-American photographer. Huberland is best known for his black and white documentary photography of New York City street scenes.
Morris Huberland
- Born
- 1909 · Warsaw.
- Died
- 2003 · New York City.
- Nationality
- United States · Poland
- Occupation
- photographer
- Languages
- Polish
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Huberland was born in Warsaw, Congress Poland in 1909. His family moved the United States in 1920, where Huberland would grow up in the Jewish Ghetto of the Lower East Side. He began taking photos at the age of sixteen. In 1940, he joined the New York Photo League. He joined the US Army in 1943, eventually becoming a corporal.
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1909
Morris Huberland was born on 1 January 1909.
2003
Morris Huberland died on 1 January 2003.
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Huberland's work is included in the collections of: • the Art Institute of Chicago • the Columbus Museum of Art • the Jewish Museum, New York • the Los Angeles County Museum of Art • the Metropolitan Museum of Art • the Museum of Fine Arts Houston • the National Gallery of Canada • the Smithsonian Museum of American Art • the New-York Historical Society Museum and Library • the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art • the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art • the Smart Museum of Art • the New York Public Library
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- 1.Zinkham, Helena. A guide to print, photograph, architecture & ephemera collections: at the New-York Historical Society. The Society. 16 May 1998.
- 2.Guide to the Morris Huberland Photograph Collection 1940's - 1950's PR 194. dlib.nyu.edu.
- 3.Kozloff, Max. New York: Capital of Photography. Yale University Press. 16 May 2019. 978-0300094459.
- 4.Exhibit Focuses on Documentarian of Post-Depression N.Y. : By NANCY KAPITANOFF. 14 March 1993.
- 5.Lepkoff, Rebecca. Life on the Lower East Side: Photographs by Rebecca Lepkoff, 1937-1950. Princeton Architectural Press. Sep 28, 2006. 9781568986067.
- 6.Morris Huberland. The Art Institute of Chicago. 1909.
- 7.Embark Collection. Columbus Museum of Art. 27 January 2016.
- 8.The Jewish Museum. thejewishmuseum.org.
- 9.Morris Huberland - LACMA Collections. collections.lacma.org.
- 10.Morris Huberland | [Graffitti on Door and Walls, East Side, New York City].
- 11.Search the Collection - The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. www.mfah.org.
- 12.Morris Huberland. www.gallery.ca.
- 13.Morris Huberland. Smithsonian American Art Museum.
- 14.Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern. Taking place: photographs from the Prentice & Paul Sack collection. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Jan 16, 2005. 9780918471789.
- 15.Guide to the Morris Huberland Photograph Collection 1940's - 1950's PR 194. dlib.nyu.edu.
- 16.Samuel Dorsky Museum of art SUNY New Paltz.
- 17.Morris Huberland · SFMOMA. www.sfmoma.org.
- 18.Morris Huberland - People - Smart Museum of Art - The University of Chicago. smartcollection.uchicago.edu.
- 19.The Morris Huberland Collection of Negatives. www.nypl.org.
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