Herman Mishkin

Herman Mishkin (March 1870 – February 6, 1948) was a Russian-American photographer in Manhattan, New York City. He specialized in photographing opera singers.^[1] Mishkin was born in Minsk, Russian Empire in March 1870. He migrated to the United States in 1885. He bought a camera and started taking photographs in the 1880s.^[2] He married and had a son, Leo Mishkin.^[3] He died on February 6, 1948.^[4]

Photograph by Mishkin of Rosa Raisa, 1917

Pasquale Amato in Cyrano, circa 1913. Photo Herman Mishkin.