13 Facts About Lida Moser

Lida Moser was an American-born photographer and author, with a career that spanned more than six decades, before retiring in her 90s.

Lida Moser was known for her photojournalism and street photography as a member of both the Photo League and the New York School.

Lida Moser's portfolio includes black and white commercial, portrait, landscape, experimental, abstract, and documentary photography, with her work continuing to have an impact.

Lida Moser's career started in 1947 as an assistant in Berenice Abbott's studio.

Lida Moser then earned her first assignment from Vogue in 1949, traveling to Scotland and then across Canada.

Lida Moser authored a number of books of her own work, and co-authored several photographic technique books.

Lida Moser's photography has fetched as much as $4,000 at Christie's and other auctions and continues to be collected and displayed by more than 40 museums worldwide.

Lida Moser was a close friend of American artist Alice Neel, and she photographed Neel several times; in return Neel painted multiple portraits of Lida Moser, which now hang is several museums in the US.

In 1949 Lida Moser was assigned by Vogue magazine to travel to Scotland and photograph Scottish writers and artists.

Lida Moser had posed her in front of a Greenwich Village garage when some neighborhood children demanded to be in the picture, then they began mimicking the model's poses.

Lida Moser carefully documented the 1970s tear-down of the neighborhood where the World Trade Center was eventually erected as well as the construction of the Center itself.

Lida Moser spent the last decades of her life in Rockville, Maryland and had several solo shows in the last few years of her life in the Washington, DC area, all of which were well received by both art critics, collectors, and museum curators.

Lida Moser died on August 11,2014, in Rockville, Maryland, six days shy of her 94th birthday.