1. Ed Feingersh studied photography under Alexey Brodovitch at the New School of Social Research.
12 Facts About Ed Feingersh
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Ed Feingersh later worked as a photojournalist for the Pix Publishing agency.
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Ed Feingersh's pictures of Marilyn Monroe are his best known, but he was a prolific photojournalist throughout the 1950s.
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Ed Feingersh majored in art at Manhattan's Haaren High School.
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Ed Feingersh took up photography while serving in Germany in the Army, where he bought an inexpensive 35-mm camera.
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Ed Feingersh worked during this period as assistant to Gjon Mili.
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Ed Feingersh developed a reputation for putting himself at risk to get the eye-catching shot the magazine editors craved; parachuting with paratroopers, lying right in the path of stunt cars and having himself tied to the periscope to photograph a submarine diving.
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At PIX he worked alongside the agency photographers Alfred Eisenstaedt, George Karger, Jerry Cooke, Eileen Darby, Robert and Cornell Capa, George Zimbel, Bob Schwalberg, Lawrence Fried, Bob Henriquez, and Garry Winogrand whom Ed Feingersh introduced to the photo agency.
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Ed Feingersh photographed Marilyn Monroe for Redbook magazine in March 1955 for a story which would follow Monroe through her daily routine, the photography to be candid and shot without flash in available light.
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Stein subsequently invited him to join him at Redbook as picture editor, but Ed Feingersh soon succumbed to alcoholism, poor mental and physical health, neglected his work and died 'in his sleep' on the morning of June 21,1961, at the home of friends in New York.
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Ed Feingersh was buried in the family plot at Prospect Park in Brooklyn.
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In 1987,26 years after Ed Feingersh died, photography collector Michael Ochs uncovered a cache of several rolls of negatives and proofs that revealed the unpublished images from the Monroe series.