Morris angel

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Morris Engel (born April 18, 1918 in Brooklyn / New York City , † March 5, 2005 there ) was an American photographer, cameraman, screenwriter and director.

Engel, who had been interested in photography since childhood, took part in a Photo League course with Berenice Abbott in 1935 . He later joined the feature group of the League and worked among other things. a. participated in Aaron Siskind's Harlem Document project . In 1939 he received a solo exhibition at The New School for Social Research with the support of Paul Strand , and he worked on Strand's monumental film Native Land . In 1940 he became a photographer for Ralph Ingersoll's newspaper PM . From 1941 to 1945 he was Chief Photographer's Mate in the US Navy.

From 1945 to 1947 he worked again for PM and then for other newspapers including Ladies Home Journal , McCall’s , Collier's, Fortune and This Week . In 1951 he made the short film The Farm They Won , in the following year, in collaboration with Raymond Abrashkin and Ruth Orkin (whom he married in the same year), the film Der kleine Ausreißer (Little Fugitives), on which he worked as a cameraman, co-author and director was involved. For this film, he received an Academy Award nomination in 1954 for Best Original Story .

Engel filmed Lovers and Lollipops (1955), Weddings and Babies (with Viveca Lindfors , 1958) and I Need a Ride to California (1968) with Ruth Orkin . In 1962 the film The Dog Lover with Jack Guilford was made . Engel also worked for television and made commercials. In the 1970s and 1980s he increasingly returned to photography. In the 1990s, the video films A Little Bit Pregnant (1994) and Camellia (1998) were made.

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SURNAME Angel, morris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American photographer, cameraman, screenwriter and director
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH March 5, 2005
Place of death New York City