MOSER, Lida.

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Man Sitting Across Berenice Abbott's Studio, Greenwich Village, NYC. Typically intriguing early image, quirkily presented on board and signed and dated 1948 by Moser (1920-2014) on the mount; she began her career assisting Abbott in her studio just a year before. Moser joined the influential Photo League and soon earned commissions from Vogue, Esquire, and the New York Times. She is best known for shots of her "dirty, wild, noisy, criminal New York" (Washington Post).Moser's fellow members of the Photo League were similar originals in the craft, such as Abbott, Arthur "Weegee" Fellig, Margaret Bourke-White, W. Eugene Smith, and Robert Frank; their aim being to "put the camera back into the hands of honest photographers who... use it to photograph America" (Tucker). She "excelled at photojournalism at a time when women were a rarity in the field. Vogue sent her to Britain to photograph artists and writers in 1949, and then to Quebec in 1950 to capture life in its rural towns... [She also] made portraits of musicians like Charles Mingus and Leonard Bernstein and fellow photographers like Yousuf Karsh and Aaron Siskind" (Slotnik).

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