Author: Rosenberg, Samuel (1911-1996) and Acme PHoto Title: Photographs of Honchos at the United Nations Conference Secretariat During Founding of the United Nations
Description: San Francisco: 1945. Sam Rosenberg. Official photograph. United Nations Conference Secretariat N.Y. Times Obituary: A native of Cleveland, where his father was a butcher and a songwriter, Mr. Rosenberg came to New York in the 1930's. Working as a play-reader for a Broadway producer, he became famous for his terse and witty critiques.. Mr. Rosenberg got a comeuppance of sorts when he collaborated with the well-known playwright Jerome Weidman on a 1936 production that Mr. Weidman later hailed as "the best play that ever folded after a tryout in Baltimore.".. After a friend recruited him for the O.S.S. the precursor of the C.I.A. Mr. Rosenberg and his wife, Angela Nizzardini, a Martha Graham dancer, moved to Washington. On an O.S.S. assignment, Mr. Rosenberg took pictures of the liberated Nazi death camps and later served as official photographer at the founding of the United Nations in San Francisco. .
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Price: US$ 200.00 Seller: Wittenborn Art Books
- Book number: 51-5399
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