Background
Sanford H. Roth was born on August 10, 1906, in Brooklyn, New York, United States.
New York University (NYU)
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Sanford H. Roth was born on August 10, 1906, in Brooklyn, New York, United States.
Sanford Roth earned a Bachelor of Art from New York University in 1928. He was a self-taught photographer.
Immediately after graduating, Sanford Roth began working for Reeds Millinery, a company with a large chain of stores, and eventually became an executive supervisor. In 1946 he resigned and left for Paris, where he lived until about 1954. Sanford Roth then moved to Rome, where he stayed until his death.
In Europe Sanford Roth freelanced for magazines, including Life, Look. Harper's Bazaar, Collier’s, Paris-Match, Oggi, Elle, and others. He was frequently employed by major film studios to do portraits of their stars and was attached to such motion pictures as Giant, A Star Is Born, Billy Budd, The Sundowners, The Nun’s Story, The Longest Day and Dial M for Murder.
Sanford Roth photographed famous personalities, included the painters Picasso and Chagall, writers such as Colette and Cocteau, film stars Jimmy Stewart, Peter Ustinov, Paul Newman, James Dean, and Sophia Loren, and such other notables as Igor Stravinsky (on his eightieth birthday) and Albert Einstein. He did all his own darkroom work, leaving explicit instructions with all his negatives for posthumous printing.
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In the 1930s Sanford Roth met and married Beulah Spigelgass.