Eva Rubinstein (born 1933) is a Polish-American photographer whose artistic works present portraits, nudes and interiors, often taken in Europe as well as the United States.

Early life

Rubinstein was born in

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where her mother, the ballerina Nela Młynarska, was accompanying her father, the pianist Arthur Rubinstein, on a concert tour of South America. She was raised in Paris where she began to train as a ballet dancer at the age of five. In 1939, at the beginning of

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, the family moved to the United States where Eva Rubinstein received American citizenship in 1946. She attended Scripps College in Claremont, California, and studied drama at the

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."Rubinsteil, Eva"
Museum of Contemporary Photography. Retrieved 30 March 2013. From 1953, she worked as a dancer and actress in New York, appearing in the original production of "The Diary of Anne Frank.". In 1956, she married

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and gave birth to three children, Amy, Alexander and David. The marriage ended in divorce in 1968.

Photography

In 1967, Rubinstein became seriously interested in photography, benefitting from workshops with

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and

Diane Arbus Diane Arbus (; née Nemerov; March 14, 1923 – July 26, 1971
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. In addition to her work as a photojournalist, she has taken more intimate photographs of people, including nudes, and of (often empty) interiors. In an interview with Frank Horvat, she explained she had always shown great respect for the people she photographed, never wishing to intrude. She has also led workshops at the

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(1972) and at

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, among many other venues in the US and Europe. Purchase, New York, (1974-1975).

Exhibitions

Rubinstein's work has been presented at nearly a hundred solo exhibitions worldwide, among them: *1979: ''Eva Rubinstein: Photographs'', Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, Michigan *1984: ''Eva Rubinstein (Polska - USA). Fotografia'', Muzeum Sztuki,

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, Poland *1985: ''Eva Rubinstein'', Galerie du Château d'eau,

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, France *2009: ''Élégies'', Galerie In Camera, Paris

References

External links

18 prints from the collection of Eva Rubinstein's work at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, ChicagoExamples of Eva Rubinstein's work from Artnet
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rubinstein, Eva American photographers 1933 births American women photographers Artists from Buenos Aires Living people Manhattanville College faculty Scripps College alumni University of California, Los Angeles alumni Polish emigrants to the United States American people of Polish-Jewish descent