Lida Moser was the guest speaker for Secondsight's inaugural meeting, held on January 31, 2003. Moser's photographic career started as a student in 1947 in Berenice Abbott's studio. She then worked for Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Look and many other magazines. She also wrote a series of "Camera View" articles on photography for The New York Times between 1974-81.
"Man in Chair - with row of garbage cans, Greenwich Village (Commerce St.) N.Y.C.
Across Street from Berenice Abbott's studio" - 1948 by Lida Moser
Moser has also authored and been part of many books and publications on and about photography. Her work has been exhibited in many museums worldwide and is in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London, the National Archives, Ottawa, the National Galleries of Scotland, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, the Library of Congress, Les Archives Nationales du Quebec and many others. Her photographic work also commands significant secondary market attention, and has sold as high as $4,000 at Christie's and Sotheby's auctions.
Moser was a member of the Photo League and the New York School. The Photo League was the seminal birth of American documentary photography. It was a group that was at times school, an association, and even a social photography club. Founded in 1936 and disbanded in 1951, the Photo League promoted photojournalism with an aesthetic consciousness and a social conscience that reaches photojournalism and street photography to this day.
Lida Moser is represented in the Greater Washington area by the Fraser Gallery.
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