Ellen Shub (January 1, 1946 – December 18, 2019) was an American photojournalist focusing on human rights and social justice issues.[1][2]
Ellen Shub | |
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| Born | January 1, 1946 New Jersey, U.S. |
| Died | December 18, 2019 (aged 73) |
| Alma mater | Harvard Graduate School of Education (MEd) |
| Occupation | photojournalist |
| Children | 1 |
| Website | ellenshub |
Early life and education
editShub was born in New Jersey to Ruth and George Shub.[1] She studied at University of Rochester, Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, and Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. Shub earned an M.Ed from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.[3]
Career
editShub worked as a media producer in television programming in the Boston area before becoming a full-time freelance photojournalist in the 1980s.[4] Shub's photographs appeared feminist newspapers, gay and lesbian newspapers, and cities' weeklies.[5] Shub attended social protests from the early 1970s through 2018 and many of her photographs feature protest signs.[5] Her photographs of protest signs have appeared in The New Yorker, the National Library of Medicine, Our Bodies Ourselves, and Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies.[6][7][8][9] She has photographed activists such as Frances Crowe, Larry Kramer, the Dalai Lama, and Rosa Parks.[10][11][12] At gallery showings, she would juxtapose images of famous people with lesser-known or unknown activists, giving each subject an equal importance or weight.[13]
Shub worked as a grants administrator and photographer for the Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts during the last decade of her life.[14]
Personal life
editShub and her longtime partner Kathy J. Seltzer had one son.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c "ELLEN SHUB's Obituary". Legacy.com. Retrieved 2020-01-21.
- ^ Shub, Ellen. "About Ellen Shub". LensCulture. Retrieved 2020-01-21.
- ^ "Ellen Shub". Institute of Coaching. 2015-05-13. Retrieved 2020-01-21.
- ^ Tilchen, Maida (March 10, 1984). "Photo Credits: Appreciating Lebian Photographers". Gay Community News. Vol. 11, no. 33. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
- ^ a b Gessen, Masha (19 January 2020). "The Erasure of Political History at the National Archives". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2020-01-21.
- ^ MacFarquhar, Larissa (2019-08-19). "The Radical Transformations of a Battered Women's Shelter". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2020-01-21.
- ^ Now, Circulating (2015-10-15). "Domestic Violence in the 1970s". Circulating Now from NLM. Retrieved 2020-01-21.
- ^ Shub, Ellen (1987). "Politics and Portraits: Women in the Seventies and the Eighties". Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies. 9 (2): 41–53. doi:10.2307/3346188. JSTOR 3346188.
- ^ "Photography: Documenting Activism - Women's Review of Books". Publications Wellesley Centers for Women. 2017-01-21. Retrieved 2020-01-21.
- ^ "'Trailblazer in the Name of Peace': Anti-War Hero Frances Crowe Dies at 100". Common Dreams. 2019-09-02. Retrieved 2020-01-21.
- ^ "A chronicle of Larry Kramer's rage-filled fight". BostonGlobe.com. 2018-07-31. Retrieved 2020-01-21.
- ^ "Public Figures". Ellen Shub Photography. Retrieved 2020-01-21.
- ^ Friedman, Alice (September 1979). "The Experience of Politics". Gay Community News. Vol. 7, no. 7. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
- ^ "Honoring Ellen Shub". Institute of Coaching. 2020-01-08. Retrieved 2020-01-21.