Alfred Gescheidt
| Alfred Gescheidt | |
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| Born | December 19, 1926 |
| Died | January 22, 2012 (aged 85) New York City |
Alfred Gescheidt (19 December 1926 - 22 January 2012) was an American photographer. He specialized in photomontage, and worked primarily in commercial and advertising photography.
Alfred Gescheidt was born in Queens, New York on December 19, 1926. He graduated with honors from The High School of Music & Art in 1944 and went to the Art Students League of New York on a scholarship. He studied there with Will Barnet and Harry Sternberg before being drafted into the U.S. Navy in 1945. After completing his required year of military service, Gescheidt enrolled at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, where he studied with Raymond Jonson. In 1949, having decided to become a photographer, he transferred to the Art Center School in Los Angeles, where he studied commercial photography with Will Connell and George Hoyningen-Huene.
Gescheidt returned to New York City in 1950 to work as a freelance photojournalist. In the summer of 1951 Gescheidt had a one-man show at the Village Camera Club. Gescheidt's work first appeared in Life magazine in 1951, when he won fourth prize in the picture story division in the magazine's contest for young photographers. The first three places in the division were won by , Elliot Erwitt, and Esther Bubley, respectively. From 1955 on he worked primarily in advertising and commercial photography, and he stopped doing photojournalism in the early 1960s.
Alfred married Rae Russel (professional photographer and Photoleague member) and had two children. Andrew Gescheidt (b. 1958) and Jack Gescheidt (b. 1960).
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