13 Facts About Adelaide Leavy

Adelaide Leavy later worked as Addie Passen was a pioneering American photojournalist and one of the few women photographers who participated in sports photography beginning in the 1940s.

Adelaide Leavy was one of the first women admitted to the National Press Photographers Association in 1945.

Adelaide Leavy studied math between 1930 and 1932 at the University of Wisconsin and then continued her studies at Columbia Business School in New York City.

Adelaide Leavy began working as a photographer in 1941, while she was in the American Women's Voluntary Services.

Adelaide Leavy quickly was promoted to head their darkroom services.

Adelaide Leavy was hired by ACME Newspictures in 1943, one month after she left the Voluntary Service.

Adelaide Leavy was a rarity at sports venues and sometimes had difficulty convincing event organizers and other reporters that she was on assignment.

Adelaide Leavy said that the most difficult part of taking a good sports photograph was trying to anticipate when the action would happen.

Adelaide Leavy moved from sports photography to fashion photography in the late 1940s.

Adelaide Leavy's office was in the Carnegie Hall Tower and she operated her studio for forty years.

Adelaide Leavy was one of the first photographers to shoot Pat Cleveland, creating a portfolio for the fourteen year old in 1964.

Adelaide Leavy was one of the photographers who worked with Italian model Fabio when he first came to the United States in the late 1980s.

Adelaide Leavy is remembered for her pioneering role as a photojournalist and one of the few women to enter the field in the United States in the 1940s.