Edward Wallowitch was an American art photographer who at age 17 had three prints in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the youngest photographer to be so honored, and who collaborated with Andy Warhol.
11 Facts About Edward Wallowitch
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Edward Wallowitch was active from the 1940s to the 1970s.
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Edward Wallowitch was born on 5 May 1932 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States.
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Edward Wallowitch's parents ran a delicatessen and both sides of the family descended from late nineteenth century Lithuanian immigrants.
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Warhol and Edward Wallowitch formed a relationship, both personal and artistic; it is likely that the photos on which Warhol's album cover art is based are by Edward Wallowitch, though he is not given credit.
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Edward Wallowitch was then living in Greenwich Village with his brother John at 8 Barrow Street in a Bohemian style floor-thru basement apartment that became a kind of salon for artists, writers, musicians, actors and singers.
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Edward Wallowitch was among the photographers who exhibited at Helen Gee's Limelight gallery, then the only photography gallery in New York.
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Edward Wallowitch was the youngest contributing photographer to The Family of Man.
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In 1966 Edward Wallowitch photographed for a book about the Appalachian Mountains titled My Appalachia by the children's author Rebecca Caudill.
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Edward Wallowitch moved to Florida, taking a studio there sometime in 1967 to 'retire' as he told Connie Houser, wife of artist Jim Houser.
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In 1995 Photographs, in memory of Edward and conceived by Lynn Lobban, performed by John Wallowitch and Lobban, and directed by Peter Schlosser, was staged at Don't Tell Mama cabaret in New York.