Sol Prom (born Solomon Fabricant)
American, 1906-1989
Born 1906, Brooklyn, New York
Died 1989
Born Solomon Fabricant, Prom studied at New York University and City College of New York before earning his PhD in economics (1938) from Columbia University. In the late 1930s he joined the Photo League, photographing under his assumed name as a member of Aaron Siskind's Feature Group. He worked on Dead End: The Bowery and Harlem Document, an extended photo-documentation of Harlem made by a group of ten photographers between 1936 and 1940. The American League for Peace and Progress published one of his photographs from Harlem Document in its house organ, and it continued to accept statistical and economic information from him relating to the project after he left the League in 1939. During World War II Prom served as chief economist in the Office of Civilian Supply (1942–43), deputy director of a division of the War Production Board (1944), and deputy director of the Requirements and Supply Coordination branch of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration in London (1944–45). After the war he was an economics professor at New York University for almost thirty years (1946–73). A member of the National Bureau of Economic Research since 1930, Prom was appointed director of research from 1953 to 1965. He authored four books and numerous articles and was a respected authority on economic recession. Throughout Prom's life, both early as photographer and later as prominent economist, he was committed to social reform.
Died 1989
Born Solomon Fabricant, Prom studied at New York University and City College of New York before earning his PhD in economics (1938) from Columbia University. In the late 1930s he joined the Photo League, photographing under his assumed name as a member of Aaron Siskind's Feature Group. He worked on Dead End: The Bowery and Harlem Document, an extended photo-documentation of Harlem made by a group of ten photographers between 1936 and 1940. The American League for Peace and Progress published one of his photographs from Harlem Document in its house organ, and it continued to accept statistical and economic information from him relating to the project after he left the League in 1939. During World War II Prom served as chief economist in the Office of Civilian Supply (1942–43), deputy director of a division of the War Production Board (1944), and deputy director of the Requirements and Supply Coordination branch of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration in London (1944–45). After the war he was an economics professor at New York University for almost thirty years (1946–73). A member of the National Bureau of Economic Research since 1930, Prom was appointed director of research from 1953 to 1965. He authored four books and numerous articles and was a respected authority on economic recession. Throughout Prom's life, both early as photographer and later as prominent economist, he was committed to social reform.
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