Born 1916, Manhattan, New York
Died 1995, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico

Born to Greek immigrant parents on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Calomiris studied journalism at Brooklyn and Hunter Colleges in New York. She joined the Photo League in the 1930s and became an undercover informant for the FBI in 1942. At about that time she joined the American Communist Party on behalf of the government, under the name Angie Cole, remaining a member for seven years and eventually gaining access to substantial information about members. In the 1940s she worked as a commercial photographer specializing in animal photographs, and also received payments from the FBI. In 1949 she testified for the prosecution at the sedition trial of a group of Communist Party leaders. During that testimony she called the Photo League a Communist front organization and named Sid Grossman as a Communist. Her testimony, following on the government's blacklisting of the Photo League in 1947, led to its demise in 1951. Her role brought her some celebrity, and she published an autobiography, Red Masquerade: Undercover for the FBI, in 1950. However, she was unable to sustain her photojournalistic career and beginning in the 1960s ran an inn, Angel's Landing, in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Her work appeared in the exhibition The Women of the Photo League at Higher Pictures Gallery, New York (2009).