Eva Rubinstein (born 1933) is a Polish-American photographer whose artistic works present portraits, nudes and interiors, often taken in Europe as well as the United States.
Early life
Rubinstein was born in
Buenos Aires where her mother, the ballerina Nela Młynarska, was accompanying her father, the pianist
Arthur Rubinstein
Arthur Rubinstein ( pl, Artur Rubinstein; 28 January 188720 December 1982) was a Polish Americans, Polish-American pianist. , on a concert tour of South America. She was raised in Paris where she began to train as a ballet dancer at the age of five. In 1939, at the beginning of
World War II, the family moved to the United States where Eva Rubinstein received American citizenship in 1946. She attended
Scripps College
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in
Claremont, California
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, and studied drama at the
University of California, Los Angeles.
["Rubinsteil, Eva"]
Museum of Contemporary Photography. Retrieved 30 March 2013. From 1953, she worked as a dancer and actress in New York, appearing in the original production of "The Diary of Anne Frank.". In 1956, she married
William Sloane Coffin and gave birth to three children, Amy, Alexander and David. The marriage ended in divorce in 1968.
Photography
In 1967, Rubinstein became seriously interested in photography, benefitting from workshops with
Lisette Model and
Diane Arbus. In addition to her work as a
photojournalist
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, she has taken more intimate photographs of people, including nudes, and of (often empty) interiors. In an interview with Frank Horvat, she explained she had always shown great respect for the people she photographed, never wishing to intrude. She has also led workshops at the
School of Visual Arts in
Manhattan (1972) and at
Manhattanville College, among many other venues in the US and Europe.
Purchase, New York
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, (1974-1975).
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Exhibitions
Rubinstein's work has been presented at nearly a hundred solo exhibitions worldwide, among them:
*1979: ''Eva Rubinstein: Photographs'', Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, Michigan
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*1984: ''Eva Rubinstein (Polska - USA). Fotografia'', Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź, Poland
References
External links
18 prints from the collection of Eva Rubinstein's work at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, ChicagoExamples of Eva Rubinstein's work from Artnet
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American photographers
1933 births
American women photographers
Artists from Buenos Aires
Living people
Manhattanville College faculty
Scripps College alumni
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
Polish emigrants to the United States
American people of Polish-Jewish descent