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Audrey Gottlieb
USA Nominee People Professional "Ichthiopoleion" Outdoor fish market, Lavrio, Greece ARTIST BIOGRAPHY Audrey Gottlieb, documentary photographer, was born in Neptune, NJ, in 1944. She is best known for her work on American immigration in the borough of Queens, New York. She currently resides in York, Maine. A graduate of Temple University, Gottlieb has worked as a photographer and educator in Boston, New York and Salonica, Greece. She joined the United Nations in 1973, serving in public information, photography, editing and translation positions in New York, Geneva, Nicosia, Nairobi and Mogadishu. Gottlieb's exhibitions include the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego; Friends of Photography, San Francisco; Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona; Ellis Island Immigration Museum; George Eastman House Museum, Rochester, NY; Center for African-American History and Culture at the Smithsonian Institution; Jewish Museum, NYC; Center for the Fine Arts, Miami; Simon Wiesenthal Center Beit Hashoah Museum of Tolerance, Los Angeles; Jimmy Carter Library Museum, Atlanta; Queens Museum of Art; Long Island Museum, Stony Brook; Queens Historical Society, Lysippos Gallery, Athens, Greece; Ogunquit Arts Collaborative, Maine; and Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University. She has taught workshops, led walking tours and given lectures at the Society for Photographic Education; New York University; The Art Directors Club; the United Nations Photographic Society; the NYC Transit Museum; and Williston Northampton School. She also has worked as a freelance photo researcher. Her work is in both private and public collections, including the Museum of Chinese America, Queensborough Public Library, City Lore and Cooper Union, all in New York City. |
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