Arthur Leipzig - Chronology



1918	Born in Brooklyn, New York.
1942	Studies under Sid Grossman at the Photo League, New York City; Marries Mildren Levin.
1942-1946	Staff photographer by for The Newspaper PM.
1943	Begins first major photo essay on Children’s Street Games.
1944	Son Joel born.
1946	Staff photographer by International News Photos; included in the exhibition New Faces at the Museum of Modern Art; Works together with Paul Strand.
1947	Begins activities as a freelance photojournalist with journeys throughout the United States on assignments for Fortune, Look, Parade, Life, Natural History, The Sunday Times and numerous industrial magazines, non–profit organizations and advertising campaigns Daughter Judith born.
1954	Travels to Mexico. Completes a photo essay on a Long Island Trucker.
1955	Begins in Edward Steichen’s landmark exhibition The Family of Man at MOMA.
1955-1973	Photo essay on Pablo Casals´.
1955	Began extensively traveling to Central America, South America, Europe, The Arctic, Asia & Africa.
1958	The MOMA purchases works by Arthur Leipzig for its collection and exhibits them
1961-1962	Participates in the exhibition Photography as a Fine Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York Honored with the Urban League Photography Award
1963	Begins to teach photography at Long Island University, New York.
1967	Takes part in the Exhibition Expo 67 Man and His World
1968	Appointed Professor of Art and Director of Photography at Long Island University, a position which he subsequently holds for 22 years
1969	Travels to Morocco in order to document the ORT program which includes the education of Moroccan Jews Receives the Art Directors Award for a reportage about Texaco oil workers
1971	Photo essay traveling in the footsteps of Horace Greeley’s journey in 1859 , Overland Journey to San Francisco.
1976-1977	Works on the photo project New Immigrants to the United States
1977	Publishes works in the book Family of Children (Grosset & Dunlap), dedicated to Edward Steichen Solo exhibition Selected Photographs in the Midtown Y Gallery
1978	Participates in the exhibition Photo League, International Center of Photography, New York
1979	Travels to Israel for a photo documentation about the Bedouins in the Negev Desert; travels to Ethiopia for an essay about Ethiopian Jews
1980-1981	Travels to Hungary, Romania, Argentina, Israel, Morocco, Tunisia, India and Germany for the photo project Jewish Life Around the World, which was exhibited in 1982 in the Nassau County Museum of Art and was shown until 1988 at other locations in the United States
1983	Receives the Long Island University Trustees Award for Scholarly Achievement.
1986	Solo exhibition in the Henry Settlement House, New York City.
1987	Participates in the exhibitions Classic Photographs from the Brooklyn Museum Collection and Generations, Smithsonian Museum, Washington, D.C.
1988	Participates in the exhibition Master Photographs from “Photography in the Fine Arts,” International Center of Photography, New York
1989	Solo exhibition and catalogue Arthur Leipzig - A Retrospective, Hillwood Art Gallery/ Long Island University.
1996	Exhibition Growing Up in New York, Museum of the City of New York. Leipzig begins a project dealing with the forces of nature.
1998	Exhibition Arthur Leipzig: A World View, Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York.
2004	Honored with the Lucie Award for outstanding achievement in Fine Art Photography.
2006	Exhibition On Assignment with Arthur Leipzig in Columbus Museum of Art and other places.
2008-2009	Solo exhibition Arthur Leipzig - Next Stop New York, Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum Aachen, Städtische Galerie Iserlohn.

Arthur Leipzig lives in Sea Cliff, Long Island.

Leipzig has published three books:
Sarah’ s Daughters: A Celebration of Jewish Women, published by Women’s American ORT, 1988
Growing Up in New York, David R. Godine Verlag, Boston, 1995
On Assignment with Arthur Leipzig, Long Island University Press, 2005

Works of Arthur Leipzig are represented in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Brooklyn Museum, New York, the National Portray Gallery, Washington DC, National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C., the Jewish Museum, New York, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris and the Folkwang Museum, Essen.

Arthur Leipzig is represented by the Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York.