Morris Huberland
American, b. Poland, 1909-2003
Born 1909, Warsaw, Poland
Died 2003
Huberland immigrated to the United States as a teenager. His family lived in Philadelphia briefly before relocating to the Lower East Side of New York. A rabbi's son, Huberland spent several years in Rabbinical school, but his interest soon shifted toward photography. He joined the Photo League in 1940 and, influenced by Eliot Elisofon's lectures on photojournalism, documented poor neighborhoods such as Hell's Kitchen and Spanish Harlem. During World War II he participated in the League's War Production Group before joining the armed forces. Huberland, an army corporal, fought in Italy, North Africa, and Germany from 1943 to 1945. His wartime photographs were exhibited at the Photo League upon his return. Huberland participated in several other exhibitions at the League and elsewhere in New York and served as exhibition chair of the League's executive committee. He collaborated with Sonia Handelman Meyer in 1947 on a photographic series of Sydenham Hospital in Harlem. Between the 1940s and 1989 he showed work at the National Gallery of Canada; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the International Center of Photography, New York; and other venues. In 1989 his photographs of Jewish immigrants were exhibited in "A Time to Remember: Jewish Life on the Lower East Side" at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New York.
Died 2003
Huberland immigrated to the United States as a teenager. His family lived in Philadelphia briefly before relocating to the Lower East Side of New York. A rabbi's son, Huberland spent several years in Rabbinical school, but his interest soon shifted toward photography. He joined the Photo League in 1940 and, influenced by Eliot Elisofon's lectures on photojournalism, documented poor neighborhoods such as Hell's Kitchen and Spanish Harlem. During World War II he participated in the League's War Production Group before joining the armed forces. Huberland, an army corporal, fought in Italy, North Africa, and Germany from 1943 to 1945. His wartime photographs were exhibited at the Photo League upon his return. Huberland participated in several other exhibitions at the League and elsewhere in New York and served as exhibition chair of the League's executive committee. He collaborated with Sonia Handelman Meyer in 1947 on a photographic series of Sydenham Hospital in Harlem. Between the 1940s and 1989 he showed work at the National Gallery of Canada; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the International Center of Photography, New York; and other venues. In 1989 his photographs of Jewish immigrants were exhibited in "A Time to Remember: Jewish Life on the Lower East Side" at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New York.
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