Sonia Handelman Meyer (born 1920) is an American photographer. Meyer is best known for her street photography as a member of the New York Photo League.
Early life
Meyer was born in Lakewood, New Jersey.[1] She was in the first graduating class of Queens College, new York in 1941.[2] Meyer discovered photography in 1942 while she was working at Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico for the U.S. Army Signal Corp.[3][4]
Career
Returning to New York in the 1940s, she was a member of the New York Photo League from 1943 to 1951, as a both photographer and secretary.[3][5] Following WW2, she photographed Jewish Holocaust survivors in New York.[6][4] She was a part of the 1949 exhibition This is the Photo League.[3]
After the dissolution of the Photo League in 1951, Meyer's work went largely unrecognized until 2006 when it was rediscovered by a gallery owner in Charlotte, North Carolina.[7] In 2014 the Mint Museum in Charlotte presented the exhibition Bearing Witness: The New York Photo League and Sonia Handelman Meyer.[8][9]
Collections
Her photographs are included in the collections of:
- the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,[10]
- the Jewish Museum, New York[11] and
- the Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina.[12]
References
- ^ "Sonia Handelman Meyer – Charlotte Museum".
- ^ "Queens College, City University of New York".
- ^ a b c "Revealing subjects - Sonia Handelman Meyer, 2016 ASC Honors". 2016-04-29.
- ^ a b Moore, Deborah Dash; Gurock, Jeffrey S.; Polland, Annie; Rock, Howard B.; Soyer, Daniel (2017-10-10). Jewish New York: The Remarkable Story of a City and a People. ISBN 9781479850389.
- ^ "15 Years That Changed Photography". 2011-11-04.
- ^ "Radical photographers helped shape art into activism". 2012-10-05.
- ^ "After 70 Years in Boxes, Photos by Charlotte Woman Find Place at Mint, Met".
- ^ "Bearing Witness: The New York Photo League and Sonia Handelman Meyer".
- ^ https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/community/cabarrus/article28038400.html
- ^ https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/302529
- ^ "The Jewish Museum".
- ^ "Newest Mint Museum Exhibition Features the Work of 93-year-old Charlotte Photographer". 2013-11-15.
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