1. Alfred Gescheidt specialized in photomontage, and worked primarily in commercial and advertising photography.
10 Facts About Alfred Gescheidt
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Alfred Gescheidt was born in Queens, New York on December 19,1926.
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Alfred Gescheidt studied there with Will Barnet and Harry Sternberg before being drafted into the US Navy in 1945.
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Alfred Gescheidt returned to New York City in 1950 to work as a freelance photojournalist.
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Alfred Gescheidt's work appeared on record album and book covers, calendars, posters, greeting cards and postcards, and in many newspapers and magazines, including Colliers, Cue, Esquire, Ladies Home Journal, Life, Look, Mademoiselle, Modern Photography, The National Enquirer, New York, Newsweek, Omni, Pageant, Parade, People, Popular Photography, Saturday Evening Post, The National Star, The New York Times, This Week, and Time, among others.
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Many of Alfred Gescheidt's images were published postcards in the 1980s, working with the American Postcard Co.
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American Gothic was a favourite and continuing theme of Alfred Gescheidt, who had inserted the faces of political opponents George Wallace and Shirley Chisholm into the picture in 1970, calling the result Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows.
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The cat postcards, calendars, and books that Alfred Gescheidt started producing for Pomegranate Artbooks in the 1980s were an exception to his usual practice of photomontage.
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Alfred Gescheidt was described by John Durniak, a picture editor for The New York Times, as "the Charlie Chaplin of the camera".
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Alfred Gescheidt died in New York City on 22 January 2012.