Biography
Born in Kiev, Russia, September 4, 1912. Received bacca-
laureate from the Sorbonne, 1930. Studied painting with
Andre ́ Lhote, 1931. Studied architecture at the Ecole
Spe ́ciale and Ecole des Beaux-Arts, 1931–1932. Joins
staff atVu, 1933. Won medal for magazine design at
the Paris International Exhibition, 1937. Arrives in New
York as an exile and began work atVogue, 1941. Pro-
moted to art director ofVogue, 1943–1962. Became
executive director of all Conde ́Nast Publications, 1962.
Died Miami, Florida, November 19, 1999.
Individual Exhibitions
1959 The Artist in His Studio; Museum of Modern Art, New
York, New York
2003 Portraits of Artists by Alexander Liberman; Getty
Research Institute, Los Angeles, California
Selected Works
Ce ́zanne’s studio, 1949
Coco Chanel in the Tuileries, 1951
Pablo Picasso in his Studio, Vallauris, France, 1954
Alberto Giacometti in his Paris studio, 1955
Marcel Duchamp’s Hands, 1960
Barnett Newman Leaving his White Street Studio, 1968
Further Reading
Delvin, Polly.Vogue Book of Fashion Photography 1919–
1979. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979.
Kazanjian, Dodie, and Tompkins, Calvin.Alex: The Life of
Alexander Liberman. New York: Knopf, 1993.
Liberman, Alexander, ed.The Art and Technique of Color
Photography: A Treasury of Color Photographs by the
Staff Photographers of Vogue, House & Garden, Gla-
mour. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1951.
———.The Artist in His Studio. New York: The Viking Press,
and London: Thames and Hudson, 1960; London: Thames
and Hudson, 1989; New York: Random House, 1988.
———.Greece, Gods and Art. New York: The Viking Press,
1968.
———.Marlene: An Intimate Photographic Memoir. New
York: Random House, 1992.
———. ‘‘Steichen’s Eye.’’ InSteichen the Photographer.
New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1961.
———. ‘‘The Stones of Venice.’’Horizon Magazine5, no. 3
(1963).
Liberman, Alexander, and Brodsky, Joseph.Campidoglio:
Michelangelo’s Roman Capitol. New York: Random
House, 1994.
Liberman, Alexander, and Tompkins, Calvin.Then: Alex-
ander Liberman Photographs 1925–1995. New York:
Random House, 1995.
Rose, Barbara.Alexander Liberman. New York: Abbeville
Press, 1981.Alexander Liberman, Marc Chagall, 1957, gelatin silver print.
[Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles]
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