Max Waldman (1919-1981) was a

dance Dance is a performing art form consisting of sequences of movement, either improvised or purposefully selected. This movement has aesthetic and often symbolic value. Dance can be categorized and described by its choreography, by its repertoir ...

and

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photographer who was also well known for his dramatic shots on a great range of subjects from football players to immigrants. The photographer became best known for his portraits of such celebrated ballet dancers as

Mikhail Baryshnikov Mikhail Nikolayevich Baryshnikov ( rus, Михаил Николаевич Барышников, p=mʲɪxɐˈil bɐ'rɨʂnʲɪkəf; lv, Mihails Barišņikovs; born January 28, 1948) is a Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Latvian-born R ...

and Natalia Makarova through his books, including "Waldman on Theater" and "Waldman on Dance." Contemporary photographers such as

Daniel Nicoletta Daniel Nicoletta (born December 23, 1954) is an Italian-American photographer, photojournalist and gay rights activist. Biography Daniel Nicoletta was born in New York City and raised in Utica, New York. In his late teens he left New York to atte ...

, was influenced by Waldman. His photographs were exhibited in numerous group and one man shows in a wide variety of venues, including; the

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, the La Jolla Museum of Art, and the Rose Museum of Brandeis University. His work is also found as part of many private and public collections, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the

George Eastman House The George Eastman Museum, also referred to as ''George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film'', the world's oldest museum dedicated to photography and one of the world's oldest film archives, opened to the public in 1949 in ...

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{{authority control Photographers from New York (state) American portrait photographers 20th-century American photographers 1919 births 1981 deaths American people of Jewish descent