13 Facts About Bruce Mozert

Robert Bruce Moser, known as Bruce Mozert, was an American photographer.

Bruce Mozert was considered to be a pioneer of underwater photography and his images of Silver Springs, Florida, were widely circulated during the early and mid 20th century.

Bruce Mozert was the youngest of three children and the only son.

Bruce Mozert graduated high school and took a job as a truck driver that brought coal to New Jersey, but quickly decided he was "too sensitive to be a truck driver" and moved to New York City to live with his sister, the well-known model and pin-up artist Zoe Mozert.

In 1938, while he was on an assignment to photograph women's shoes in Miami, Florida, Bruce Mozert heard about the filming of one of Johnny Weissmuller's Tarzan movies in Silver Springs.

Bruce Mozert traveled to meet the cast and ended up staying in Ocala, becoming the official photographer of Silver Springs for the next 45 years.

Bruce Mozert served in the US Army Air Forces during part of World War II and there learned aerial photography.

Bruce Mozert took advantage of the extremely clear water of Silver Springs by taking underwater photographs with specially constructed waterproof camera housings.

Bruce Mozert built his first such housing in the early 1940s.

Bruce Mozert took underwater movie stills for the many productions filmed in Silver Springs.

Bruce Mozert spent his last years working out of his studio in Ocala, Florida, where he digitized film.

Bruce Mozert's pictures have been featured in publications such as Huffington Post, National Geographic, Life, Look, Pic and Smithsonian Magazine.

Bruce Mozert died at his home in Ocala on October 14,2015, at the age of 98.