Seema Aissen Weatherwax
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Seema Aissen Weatherwax (August 25, 1905 – June 25, 2006) was a Jewish-American photographer born in the Russian Empire.
Born in Chernihiv, Russian Empire to Jewish parents, Avram and Reva Aissen, Seema was the middle child of three daughters. The family emigrated to England in 1913, then to Boston in 1922, where young Seema found her first job working in a photofinishing lab. She pursued this craft in Boston, New Jersey, New Mexico, California and Tahiti, but she was 95 when she first exhibited her own photographs to the public.[1]
In Los Angeles in the 1930s she joined the
On the eve of her 94th birthday, she decided that she wanted to do two things before she died; print some of her old negatives and have a new love. Having reflected on the reasons for having put her own creative work in the background, she revised her life story, using work created on the margins of the great photography of the mid-20th century to step from a conventional women's role into center stage.
In 2005, Seema Weatherwax had her fifth public show of her photographs, at Special Collections at the
References
- ^ Profile, oac.cdlib.org. Accessed October 24, 2022.
- ^ Seema Aissen Weatherwax obituary, legacy.com. Accessed October 24, 2022.
Resources
- Tapes and transcripts of interviews for the Weatherwax biography are deposited at Special Collections, University of California at Santa Cruz, which also holds the bulk of the Weatherwax collection of photographs. Supplementary photographs from the Weatherwax collection are deposited with Special Collections, Stanford University.
- Jack Weatherwax's papers are held by the Smithsonian Institution.
- See an exhibit of some of Seema Weatherwax's photographs.
Further reading
- Buhle, P. and E. B. Sullivan, Eds. (1998). Images of American Radicalism. Hanover, MA, The Christopher Publishing House (includes two photos by Seema Weatherwax)
- Wilson, C. and W. Madar (1998). Through Another Lens: My Years with Edward Weston. New York, North Point Press, Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
- Halprin, Sara (2005). Seema's Show: A Life on the Left. Albuquerque, New Mexico, The University of New Mexico Press.
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