Sidney Kerner
American, 1920-2013
Born 1920, Brooklyn, New York
Lives in New York
Kerner attended Brooklyn College for a year in 1937 and joined the Photo League at that time. There he studied with Sid Grossman and worked on the Feature Group’s Pitt Street project with Walter Rosenblum. He worked at the time at Magnum Photos, the celebrated photographers’ agency. During World War II he was a corporal in the Air Force, serving with the 28th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron in Okinawa. After the war, he was a portrait photographer at the Pentagon in Washington, DC (1946), then a freelance film cameraman. He returned to New York where he worked as lighting director for NBC and ABC television networks (1953–60 and 1961–91).
Throughout these years he continued to photograph the life of the city. He began showing his work in the 1970s; a retrospective, “Sidney Kerner: New York City Photographs, 1937–1990,” was held at Queens College Art Center in 1990, and his work is in the collections of the New York Public Library; Brooklyn Museum of Art; New-York Historical Society; Museum of the City of New York; Archives of the Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Bibliothèque de la Ville de Paris; Arquivo Fotografico, Câmara Municipal, Lisbon; and in many private collections. His published works include Family of Woman (1979), Lisbon Pictures (1967), and coverage in Camera (“Portfolio: New York City, 1937–1939”), Modern Photography, and Time-Life Photography Year 1979.
Lives in New York
Kerner attended Brooklyn College for a year in 1937 and joined the Photo League at that time. There he studied with Sid Grossman and worked on the Feature Group’s Pitt Street project with Walter Rosenblum. He worked at the time at Magnum Photos, the celebrated photographers’ agency. During World War II he was a corporal in the Air Force, serving with the 28th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron in Okinawa. After the war, he was a portrait photographer at the Pentagon in Washington, DC (1946), then a freelance film cameraman. He returned to New York where he worked as lighting director for NBC and ABC television networks (1953–60 and 1961–91).
Throughout these years he continued to photograph the life of the city. He began showing his work in the 1970s; a retrospective, “Sidney Kerner: New York City Photographs, 1937–1990,” was held at Queens College Art Center in 1990, and his work is in the collections of the New York Public Library; Brooklyn Museum of Art; New-York Historical Society; Museum of the City of New York; Archives of the Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Bibliothèque de la Ville de Paris; Arquivo Fotografico, Câmara Municipal, Lisbon; and in many private collections. His published works include Family of Woman (1979), Lisbon Pictures (1967), and coverage in Camera (“Portfolio: New York City, 1937–1939”), Modern Photography, and Time-Life Photography Year 1979.
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