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Jul 17, 2012 · Looking at Editta Sherman’s celebrity portraits, you wonder: Who will be this era’s Tyrone Power? Which current movie star will be the one hardly anyone recalls seventy years from now? Bale?
Aug 22, 2017 · For 61 years, photographer Editta Sherman, who lived to be 101, worked and slept in a rent-controlled studio apartment high above Carnegie Hall. There, donning feather-accented costumes and dark red lipstick, she photographed an impressive cast of creatives—from Charlton Heston and June Carter Cash to Andy Warhol and Tilda Swinton.
Editta was married in 1935 to Harold Sherman, a sound engineer and inventor, as well as her business partner. He died at the age of 50 years, after suffering blindness and diabetes, leaving Editta with five young children to bring up as a single mother.
Feb 11, 2014 · She married young and began a family with her husband in California, then Washington, D.C., where they had a farm; a newspaper ad for artists spaces at Carnegie Hall drew the family to New York. Sherman and her family settled in Carnegie Towers, where studios had been set aside for artists at reasonable rates.
Aug 17, 2017 · When Editta Sherman first moved with her family to studio No. 1208 above Carnegie Hall, she was a 37-year-old struggling photographer, a scrappy naif compared with the building’s more-glamorous...
Aug 9, 2017 · “The Duchess of Carnegie Hall: Photographs by Editta Sherman” is on view at the New-York Historical Society from August 18 to October 15. Photo: Editta Sherman (1912–2013); Kim Hunter; ca.1951. Gelatin silver print.
Jul 9, 2012 · Born Editta Rinaldo to Italian immigrants in 1912, Ms. Sherman photographed a who’s who of stars in her lifetime. Today, on her 100th birthday, her archive is a meticulous collection of...
