Arthur Leipzig is one of the leading exponents of American street photography. As a photojournalist he has traveled the world over, but his work often portrays people of his home town, New York. Arthur Leipzig was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1918. After studying photography at the Photo League, he was initially employed in 1942 by The Newspaper PM and International News Photos. In 1943 he started work on Children's Games, his first major photo essay. From 1947 Arthur Leipzig traveled the USA and later the whole world as a photographer and photojournalist for magazines such as Fortune, Look, Life, The Sunday Times, and This Week. In addition, starting in 1963, he taught for many years at Long Island University; from 1968 as Professor of Art and Director of Photography. His work has been shown in many exhibitions and is represented today at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Biblioteque Nationale, Paris, and the Museum Folkwang, Essen, to name a few. Arthur Leipzig lives in Sea Cliff, Long Island. ?My assignments and my independent projects took me all over and under the city, always searching for the human face of New York. I photographed people on the subways and on the beach in Coney Island, painters working in Brooklyn Bridge, kids swimming in the East River; I photographed the night life and the violence, the working class and the upper class?The city was my home?. (Arthur Leipzig, 1995) b/w photographs throughout
