Peter B. Martin

Peter B. Martin, Sr. (1915–1992) was an American photographer and publisher. Martin was one of the top^{[citation needed]} New York City publishing photographers in the 1950s, with work published in Mademoiselle,^[1] Cosmopolitan,^[2][3] Life,^[4] and McCall's.^[5]

From the late 1940s to the 1960s, he was a fashion photographer and photojournalist. He photographed many celebrities including Frank Sinatra,^[6] Bunk Johnson, Edgar Bergen,^[7] Imogene Coca,^[8] Edward R Murrow,^[9] Arthur Schlesinger, Jr,^[10] Leonard Bernstein,^[11] Eleanor Roosevelt,^[5] Natalie Wood, James Dean, Vera Zorina, Kim Novak, Ann Francis, Sheree North, Walt Disney, Jack Webb,^[3] the Allman Brothers, Jim Morrison, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, The Grateful Dead and Janis Joplin.^[12] In addition to his photography, Martin published periodicals about photography (Figure^[13] and Photography Workshop^[14]) during the early 1950s, and in the late 1950s and 1960s he published television and music magazines (Movie Teen Illustrated^{[citation needed]} and Pop Rock^[12]).

Photography Workshop

New York was a photojournalism mecca in the 1950s, and Peter Martin's "studio 61" at 286 Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village, New York, was a gathering place for many photographers at that time.^{[citation needed]} Many contributed to the Photography Workshop publication, which was devoted to the photographer's work, techniques, equipment and art.

Photography Workshop Summer 1950 contents

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Editor: Peter Martin; Associate Editors: Fred Sparks, Joan Marsh, Fred Lyon

• Technical Story of the Year
• Parlor, Bedlam and Flashbulb
• Photo-Journalism
• The Case History of A Picture Story "Fairy Tale On Fifth Avenue"
• Fashion Photography
• The Ford Girls
• Portrait Photography
• Figure Photography (Fred Lyon)
• The Reluctant Photographer
• The Photographer in Europe (by Fred Sparks)
• The Child as a Photographic Subject
• A Subject Eyes The Photographer
• Four Picture Assignments
• Circle of Confusion (photos by Peter Martin)

Photography Workshop Fall 1950 contents

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• The Photographer's Story
• Press Photography
• Voodoo Photography (Earl Leaf)
• The LIfe, Times and Photographs of Halsman
• Thumbnail Photographs 1935–1950
• Damascus: An Early Picture HIstory
• Philippe & The Rita
• Portraits
• 42 Life Magazine Halsman Covers
• Theatre and Dance
• Salvador Dalí
• Model "t" Fashion Photography
• Halsman Technique
• Figure Photography
• Anatomic props

Photography Workshop Fall 1951 contents

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• Assignment in Studio 61
• 12 Photographers:
  • Fred Lyon
  • Fernand Fonssagrives
  • Ruth Orkin
  • Stephen Colhoun
  • Dan Wynn
  • Gleb Derrujinsky, Jr.
  • Herbert Giles
  • Jerry Yulsman
  • Genevieve Naylor
  • Richard Litwin
  • Ted Croner
  • W. Eugene Smith