David Gahr

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David Gahr (September 18, 1922 – May 25, 2008) was an American photographer, known for his work with famous musicians.

Biography

David Gahr was born on September 18, 1922, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Russian immigrant parents. He enlisted in the US Army one day after the attack on Pearl Harbor and served in the infantry in Europe. He was one of the American soldiers who helped liberate concentration camp survivors. After World War II, he studied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on the G.I. Bill and was a George Marshall scholar at Columbia University while working towards a doctorate in economics. He later became one of "the pre-eminent photographers of American folk, blues, jazz and rock musicians of the 1960s and beyond".^[1]

His photographic output includes more than five decades covering musicians like

His work is in major museum collections including The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Museum of Modern Art. He also photographed many of the leading post war artists including the very private Joseph Cornell with whom he was a personal friend. His brilliance both visually and verbally helped him create a dazzling photographic body of work of spectacular visual power.

Dozens of Wikipedia pages include reference to Gahr's photographs, like those of

David Gahr died in his home in Brooklyn, New York on May 25, 2008, at the age of 85. [2] He left behind a son and his daughter, Carla Gahr (also a NYC-based photographer, who, with her father, managed the David Gahr photography studio and archives).

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External links

• The David Gahr collection of photographs is held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art and The Smithsonian Museum and important collections throughout the world.

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