Background
Estelle Jussim was born on March 18, 1927, in New York City. She was the daughter of Boris and Manya (Glusker) Jussim.
Queens College
Columbia University
Linköping University
Estelle Jussim was born on March 18, 1927, in New York City. She was the daughter of Boris and Manya (Glusker) Jussim.
Estelle Jussim studied at Queens College in New York, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in 1947, and at Columbia University in New York, where she earned a Master of Science in 1963 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1970. She also earned Doctor of Philosophy in Linköping (Sweden) University in 1990.
In 1972 Jussim assumed her position as professor of visual communication at Simmons College in Boston. From 1969 to 1972 she was assistant professor of communications media at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. In 1965-66 she held the position of executive assistant to the director of educational resources
for the Borough of Manhattan; before that she was employed by the Columbia University libraries from 1963 to 1965. She worked as a freelance graphic designer in New York City during 1948-1960. She was on International advisory board of History of Photography in London since 1980.
She died on March 1, 2004 in Holyoke, Massachusetts, United States.
Quotations: "What is conveyed in a photograph is so complex, so involved in cultural assumptions, so much a reflection of societal ideologies, that it should seem obvious that aesthetics is only part of the experience."
Estelle Jussim is also on the board of trustees of Visual Studies Workshop (Rochester, New York, 1980-1994), and on the international board of advisers of History of Photography magazine in London.
Estelle Jussim and her longtime partner, Elizabeth Lindquist-Cock, had a passion for traveling, touring such countries as Italy, England, Spain, and Russia. In her spare time, she was a voracious reader and was a dedicated supporter of animal rights.