Myron Ehrenberg
American, 1907-1977
Born 1907, Boston, Massachusetts
Died 1977, Massachusetts
In 1932 Ehrenberg left his hometown of Boston for Hollywood, where he worked odd jobs and also as a writer. In the 1930s he served as a volunteer in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War, and was active in the Photo League by 1941. After the war he toured Greece for the Greek War Relief, publishing images and interviews from the trip. In 1947 he rejoined the Photo League, where he lectured on his experiences in Greece. Ehrenberg regularly photographed at New York's Café Society, the first racially integrated nightclub in the United States; many of the performers there, including Lena Horne, Pearl Primus, and Hazel Scott, are among his most celebrated portrait subjects. His photographs were featured in The New York Times, Life, Fortune, and Ebony, and were exhibited in "Realism in Photography" at A.C.A. Gallery, New York in 1951 along with work by other Photo League members. After the League disbanded, he provided photographs for several books by Dorothy Sterling, some intended for children, including Sophie and Her Puppies (1951), United Nations, NY (1953), Wall Street: The Story of the Stock Exchange (1955), Polio Pioneers: The Story of the Fight Against Polio (1955) and Tender Warriors (1958), a collection of photographs and essays about children attending newly integrated schools in the South (also with Donald Gross). Ehrenberg served as president of the American Society of Magazine Photographers (1956-60).
Died 1977, Massachusetts
In 1932 Ehrenberg left his hometown of Boston for Hollywood, where he worked odd jobs and also as a writer. In the 1930s he served as a volunteer in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War, and was active in the Photo League by 1941. After the war he toured Greece for the Greek War Relief, publishing images and interviews from the trip. In 1947 he rejoined the Photo League, where he lectured on his experiences in Greece. Ehrenberg regularly photographed at New York's Café Society, the first racially integrated nightclub in the United States; many of the performers there, including Lena Horne, Pearl Primus, and Hazel Scott, are among his most celebrated portrait subjects. His photographs were featured in The New York Times, Life, Fortune, and Ebony, and were exhibited in "Realism in Photography" at A.C.A. Gallery, New York in 1951 along with work by other Photo League members. After the League disbanded, he provided photographs for several books by Dorothy Sterling, some intended for children, including Sophie and Her Puppies (1951), United Nations, NY (1953), Wall Street: The Story of the Stock Exchange (1955), Polio Pioneers: The Story of the Fight Against Polio (1955) and Tender Warriors (1958), a collection of photographs and essays about children attending newly integrated schools in the South (also with Donald Gross). Ehrenberg served as president of the American Society of Magazine Photographers (1956-60).
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