Bob Adelman

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Bob Adelman (born October 30, 1930 in Brooklyn , New York City , † March 19, 2016 in Miami Beach , Florida ) was an American photographer and author.

Life

Bob Adelman was born in Brooklyn in October 1930 to Jewish parents and grew up in Rockaway , New York during the Great Depression . His father worked as a floor layer. The family had immigrated to the United States from Germany.

Adelman first attended Stuyvesant High School.

After graduating from school in 1946, he went to Rutgers University , where he did his BA , then law at Harvard University , then philosophy at Columbia University . He completed this course with an MA .

After graduating, he turned under the guidance of the Art Directors of Harper's Bazaar , Alexey Brodovitch to, photography and took pictures on any subject, u. a. from the women's movement, from the first gay pride parades or from the anti-war movement, but also pictures by artists in New York, such as B. Andy Warhol . His work has appeared in Esquire , Life , Time , New York Times Magazine and Paris Match .

In the early 1960s he began to work as a freelancer for several organizations of the emerging civil rights movement, such as the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the NAACP .

When asked why he joined the civil rights movement, Adelman said, “Since I was Jewish, I had my own problems with discrimination, so I identified with discrimination against blacks. My thesis at the university was about slave breeding farms in the northern southern states . "

His outstanding photographs document the brutal repression of the Civil Rights Movement (the US civil rights movement ) in the 1960s and hold key events of this period determines how the Freedom Rides , the 1963 by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) organized Birmingham Campaign , the March on Washington for Work and Freedom on August 28, 1963, on which Martin Luther King gave his famous speech “ I have a dream ”, the Voter Registration Campaign , with which the black population - common in the United States - Wanted to enable registration for elections, or the Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965.

Adelman's best-known pictures from this period include photos he took during King's famous "I have a dream" speech on August 28, 1963, of Martin Luther King and his wife Coretta leading hundreds of demonstrators at the Selma-to-Montgomery -Marches in 1965, or the inclusion of a small group of black youths who are exposed to and resist the jet of a water cannon.

With his pictures Bob Adelman succeeded in waking up the media and in bringing the unsustainable socio-political conditions in the southern states into the consciousness of the people of the United States, and ultimately the world.

Bob Adelman wrote a total of twelve books. The best known, Mine Eyes Have Seen (My eyes have [it] seen) , a review of the civil rights movement, was founded in 2007 by Life in the series Great Photographers Series published.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ABC News March 22, 2016: Civil Rights Photographer Bob Adelman Dies at Age 85.
  2. ↑ Bob Adelman, Civil Rights Movement photographer who chronicled Martin Luther King Jr., dead at 85. In: NY Daily News, March 20, 2016.
  3. ↑ Bob Adelman. In: Westwood Gallery.
  4. ↑ Bob Adelman - Homepage (Bio & Quotes) ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: bobadelman.net.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bobadelman.net
  5. ↑ Forward March 22, 2016: Legendary Jewish Civil Rights Photographer Bob Adelman Meets a Tragic End
  6. ↑ Miami Herald March 19, 2016: Noted civil rights-era photographer Bob Adelman found dead at Miami Beach home
  7. ↑ New York Daily News March 20, 2016: Bob Adelman, Civil Rights Movement photographer who chronicled Martin Luther King Jr., dead at 85
  8. ^ Jewish Telegraphic Agency March 22, 2016: Police probe death of Bob Adelman, civil rights photographer
  9. ↑ Broward Palm Beach New Times January 30, 2014: Bob Adelman's Civil Rights Photos at Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale
  10. ↑ JET February 2014: Bob Adelman Reflects on the Civil Rights Movement (Interview)
  11. ^ Westwood Gallery: Photographs of the struggle for civil rights, 1960s
  12. ↑ JET February 2014: Bob Adelman Reflects on the Civil Rights Movement (Interview)
  13. ^ Jewish Telegraphic Agency March 22, 2016: Police probe death of Bob Adelman, civil rights photographer
  14. ^ Library of Congress: A Day Like No Other: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington (Bob Adelman)
  15. ↑ Pinterest: Bob Adelman: Kelly Ingram Park, Birmingham, Alabama, 1963
  16. ↑ Guardian January 28, 2016: Bob Adelman's best shot
  17. ^ The Guardian April 20, 2015: Looking back: 1965
personal data
SURNAME Adelman, Bob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adelman, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American photographer and author
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York City , United States
DATE OF DEATH 19th March 2016
Place of death Miami Beach , Florida , United States