Background

Judy Glickman Lauder was born in the United States in 1939. She is a daughter of Irving Bennett Ellis, a prominent pictorialist photographer, a fellow of the Royal Photographic Society of the United Kingdom, and the recipient of many photographic awards.

Education

Judy Glickman Lauder spent her childhood in Piedmont, California. As a teenager, she moved to Los Angeles where she was raised by her father, a well-known pictorialist photographer Irving Bennett Ellis after cancer had taken away her mother.

Lauder was exposed to all attributes of the photography world since the early years. She spent long hours in the darkroom of her father and frequently stood in front of his large Graflex camera. Besides, she had an opportunity to meet her father colleagues, including Edward Weston and Ansel Adams. All that certainly had an influence on Lauder’s creative pursuit over the subsequent years.

Lauder received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1959. In 1977, she entered an Adult Counseling Certification program of the institution.

A year later, she began a six-years photographic training at the University. From 1978 to 1987, Lauder also attended Maine Photographic Workshops and studied at the Maine College of Art from 1984 to 1985.

Judy Glickman Lauder has also received three honorary degrees, the one of Fine Arts from the Maine College of Art in 2002, the second of Humane Letters in 2014 from the University of Southern Maine, and the third from the University of New England five years later.

Career

Judy Glickman Lauder started her career as a photographer in the 1970s. Since then, she has traveled with her camera taking pictures of light, paysages, people, atmosphere, and feelings she observed. The most remarkable among the works of the time became the series of photos she made while visiting the actual sites of the Holocaust period of history. The work provided Judy Glickman Lauder with a commission from the Danish government to portray the rescuers and survivors of the Second World War.

Dealing primarily with black and white on her images from the beginning of her photo career, Lauder has also tried her hand in color photography. One of the main subjects of the color pictures she produced is the inner charm and timelessness of Maine and its Great Diamond Island.

In addition to her photos which have been shown in a great number of well-known museums and art space around the world, Judy Glickman Lauder has published nationally and internationally several photo books as well. One of her recent publications is ‘Beyond the Shadows: The Holocaust and the Danish Exception’.

The representative of Lauder’s art in New York City is the Howard Greenberg Gallery.

Achievements

• Judy Glickman Lauder is an accomplished photographer whose works are praised for her unique command of the photography’s key components, light, and shadow.
  
  Lauder’s photos are acquired by more than 300 collections, both private and public ones, including the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., and the Danish Jewish Museum, in Copenhagen among others.
  
  Lauder has been a recipient of many prestigious awards, like Deborah Morton Award from the University of New England, Maine College of Art Honors Award, and Gordon Parks Foundation Award to name a few. In 2015, she obtained the Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine Honor.

Works

More photos

• book

  • Beyond the Shadows: The Holocaust and the Danish Exception

    (The volume responds to the mass murder of Jews during the...)

    2018

• photography

  • Dachau Concentration Camp, Germany

  • Birkenau Extermination Camp, Poland

  • Auschwitz Extermination Camp, Poland

  • Railroad tracks from Warsaw to Treblinka extermination camp

  • Bohusovice Train Station Near Theresienstadt Concentration Camp, Czech

  • Railroad Crossing, Treblinka

  • Cell, Auschwitz Extermination Camp, Poland

  • Cell, Auschwitz Extermination Camp, Poland

  • Photographer's Shadow, Underground Tunnel, Theresienstadt Concentration Camp, Czech

  • Maine

  • Untitled

  • Untitled

  • Los Angeles

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  • Cape Elizabeth, Maine

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  • Dr. Ole Secher

  • Victor Borge

  • Birgit Krasnik Fischermann

  • Island Window

  • Harraseeket

  • Cafe

  • Anasazi Ruins

Views

Quotations: "Over the years, I have traveled extensively, cameras in hand, following the light the landscape, the people, the atmosphere, and the feeling of a destination. My hope is that one would sense an inner presence in my work. From the purity of light itself to its deepest shadows, photography has allowed me to express myself. For this I am deeply grateful."

"My images are meaningful to me. They all tell a story. I have tried to be open and intuitive in my work, using simple equipment and allowing myself to be guided by what presents itself – a momentary reflection, a shaft of light appearing mysteriously."

"Photography is something that has been a part of me all my life. Wherever I am, I'm always carrying a camera. I travel with a ton of film and two cameras – for color photos, I do digital, but for black and white, I still use film."

"We live in a dangerous world, and our ability to destroy has only grown manyfold since World War II. We cannot allow hatred and injustice, power and greed to gain a foothold – anywhere or towards anyone."

"I never have any intentions. I always go to what I'm drawn to – I try to let myself be free. There was a time when I was photographing and kept thinking, Oh my God, why didn't I bring this kind of film? Why didn't I have this certain lens? Why didn't I come this time of day? I don't do that anymore. I just go with it and see where it leads me."

Membership

In 1993, Judy Lauder became a fellow of the Royal Photographic Society.

Connections

Judy Glickman Lauder’s first husband was a successful businessman Albert Glickman whom she met while studying at the University of California, Los Angeles. The family of Lauder and Glickman produced four children. Albert died in 2013.

Two years after, Judy formed a family with another businessman Leonard Lauder.

Father:

Irving Bennett Ellis

Late Husband:

Albert Glickman

Judy Lauder with Albert Glickman.

husband:

Leonard Alan Lauder

References

• Judy Glickman Lauder's Official Website