ArenaPAL - Herb Snitzer biography

A lifetime of Photography

HERB SNITZER

Herb Snitzer's career covers over forty-five years of image-making.

In 1957, when he graduated from the Philadelphia College of Art, Herb moved to New York City where he quickly established himself as one of the top young photojournalists.

He has worked for Life, Look, The Saturday Evening Post, Fortune, Time and other national magazines as well as for the New York Times and Herald Tribune.

As Photography and Associate Editor of America's Leading Jazz Magazine, Metronome, he met, photographed and become friends with many of the great jazz musicians of that era; Miles Davis, Nina Simone, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Count Basie to name a few.

His photographic, social and political interests cover a wide spectrum of issues which are integral to his visual work. Freedom, equality and justice are all expressed in his political images, yet he has also found the time to work with more personal and intimate expressions about life and living.

Herb’s work has been exhibited internationally both in solo and group exhibitions. His work is also in the collections of many museums and private collectors; the Museum of Modern Art, Houston Museum of Fine Arts and Boston Museum of African American History, and the collections of Elton John, Bill Cosby, Bill & Hillary Clinton to name a few.

He moved to St. Petersburg, Florida in 1992, establishing a studio at Salt Creek Artworks.

Publications: Jazz: A Visual Journey, Notables Publishing: Reprise: The Extraordinary Revival of Early Music, Joel Cohen, Little, Brown & Co., Boston, MA: Today is for Children, The Macmillan Co., New York, NY: Living at Summerhill, The Macmillan Co., New York, NY: The New York I Know (with Marya Mannes), Lippincott Publishing, New York, NY.

Awards: Alumni Award, Philadelphia College of Art: School Bell Award, National Education Association: Lifetime Achievement Award – NAACP, St. Petersburg

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