Larry Silver
American, b. 1934
Born 1934, Bronx, New York
Lives in Westport, Connecticut
Silver started photographing the streets and subways of New York at the age of fifteen. Because his high school was near a camera store frequented by Photo League members, he was able to meet many of them, including W. Eugene Smith, Weegee, and Lou Bernstein, who mentored him. During his senior year of high school, Silver won a photography scholarship to Art Center School, Los Angeles (1954–56). Once in California, he photographed the beaches of Santa Monica, which culminated in his well-known series Muscle Beach (1954). Silver worked in commercial photography studios and color-processing labs before opening his own advertising photography studio in New York (1960–99). From 1977 to 1982 he taught photography at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. Silver has been a member of the American Society of Magazine Photographers since 1975, and the Advertising Photographers of America since 1981.
Lives in Westport, Connecticut
Silver started photographing the streets and subways of New York at the age of fifteen. Because his high school was near a camera store frequented by Photo League members, he was able to meet many of them, including W. Eugene Smith, Weegee, and Lou Bernstein, who mentored him. During his senior year of high school, Silver won a photography scholarship to Art Center School, Los Angeles (1954–56). Once in California, he photographed the beaches of Santa Monica, which culminated in his well-known series Muscle Beach (1954). Silver worked in commercial photography studios and color-processing labs before opening his own advertising photography studio in New York (1960–99). From 1977 to 1982 he taught photography at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. Silver has been a member of the American Society of Magazine Photographers since 1975, and the Advertising Photographers of America since 1981.
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