Ida Wyman
American, 1926-2019
Born 1926, Malden, Massachusetts
Wyman moved to New York as a child and began photographing the streets of her Bronx neighborhood as a teenager in the 1940s. During World War II she became the first female photograph printer at Acme Newspictures (1943–45). Wyman heard about the Photo League in 1946 and began attending the group discussions on documentary photography led by Morris Engel from 1946 to 1947. Since she had her own darkroom, she did not use the League's facilities. A successful freelance photographer, she published photographs in Life, Fortune, The Saturday Evening Post, Parade, and This Week (1945–51). Wyman later became a scientific photographer at Columbia University's department of pathology, College of Physicians and Surgeons (1968–83). She returned to photojournalism in the 1980s. In 2006 Wyman moved from the Bronx to Madison, Wisconsin, where she had a retrospective at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art in 2008.
Wyman moved to New York as a child and began photographing the streets of her Bronx neighborhood as a teenager in the 1940s. During World War II she became the first female photograph printer at Acme Newspictures (1943–45). Wyman heard about the Photo League in 1946 and began attending the group discussions on documentary photography led by Morris Engel from 1946 to 1947. Since she had her own darkroom, she did not use the League's facilities. A successful freelance photographer, she published photographs in Life, Fortune, The Saturday Evening Post, Parade, and This Week (1945–51). Wyman later became a scientific photographer at Columbia University's department of pathology, College of Physicians and Surgeons (1968–83). She returned to photojournalism in the 1980s. In 2006 Wyman moved from the Bronx to Madison, Wisconsin, where she had a retrospective at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art in 2008.
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