Yale Joel

Background

Yale Joel was born on February 21, 1919 in New York, United States.

Career

Yale Joel began to learn photography by working as an assistant to photojournalists at Life magazine in 1936 and with graphic artist/photographer Herbert Matter. A staff photographer for Life from 1947 to 1972, he had done freelance photojournalism for such magazines as Smithsonian, Time and People. During World War II he was a combat photographer for the U.S. Army. He held photography workshops in Croton-on-Hudson, New York.

Yale Joel died on September 13, 2006 of cardiac arrest at his home in New York City, according to Bobbi Baker Burrows, director of photography for Life Books.

Achievements

• Yale Joel was named Photographer of the Year in 1953.

Works

More photos

• book

  • Yale Joel - Creative Camera Techniques; Children, Pets & Wildlife 1968
  • Creative Camera Techniques, a Personal photo Guide, Super Snapshots 1979
  • Creative Camera Techniques - Set 7: Patterns; Set 8: Fun & Humor 1979
  • Creative Camera Techniques - Set 9 and Set 10 1979
  • Creative Camera Techniques - Set 15: Special Effects; Set 16: Seasons 1979
  • Creative Camera Techniques - Set 19: The Nude; Set 20: The Professional Portfolio 1979
  • Which musical instrument shall I play? 1969
  • Creative Camera Techniques - Sets 17 & 18 1979
  • Creative Camera Techniques 1979
  • Creative Camera Techniques - Sets 11 & 12

• photography

  • Booth lighting shows LIFE photographer Yale Joel on the other side of trick one-way mirror, shooting photographs of unsuspecting public in lobby of Broadway movie theater, Times Square, New York.

    1946

  • Flying entrance into Fedoruks' front hall is made by 15-year-old Denise Ferry who, wearing a backless black cotton dress, two petticoats and a hoop and ballet shoes, leaps in grandly from porch.

    (Flying entrance into Fedoruks' front hall is made by 15-y...)

    1956

  • Candidate for Congress, John Kennedy, 29 sitting under campaign poster, next to photos of his parents a room at the Bellevue Hotel during his campaign for MA-Rep for the 11th district.

    1946

  • Elderly woman carefully filling a half-empty catsup bottle with the contents of another bottle in order to take a full one home, after Bean Supper on Boston Common.

    1950

  • Woman moistening her lips, as others are checking out their own profiles, while looking in trick mirror, lobby of Broadway movie theater, Times Square, New York.

    1946

  • Ping-pong pirouette is made by Stephen McCready (left) as he makes super effort to help partner, Gay Mulligan, return ball during presupper game period.

    1956

  • Jitterbug gyration to rock 'n roll music is performed on porch by Coltby Walton, in eye-catching plaid coat, and his partner Caroline Askew.

    (Jitterbug gyration to rock 'n roll music is performed on ...)

    1956

  • Man adjusting overcoat and grimacing, while looking in trick mirror, lobby of Broadway movie theater, Times Square, New York.

    1946

  • Woman checking eyelid in trick mirror, lobby of Broadway movie theater, Times Square, New York.

    1946

  • Off alone, the parents of Nick let their son run his own party. Their future could be even more simple since some teen-agers of 16 and up, if they are in love, often prefer dating singly to attending parties.

    1956

Membership

Yale Joel was a member of American Society of Media Photographers and the New York Press Photographers Association.

• New York Press Photographers Association , New York

• American Society of Media Photographers

Connections

Yale Joel was married. His wife's name Shirley; he had sons David and Seth; a daughter Louisa Fanger; and four grandchildren.

Spouse:

Shirley Joel

Son:

David Joel

Son:

Seth Joel

Daughter:

Louisa Fanger

References

• Macmillan Biographical Encyclopedia of Photographic Artists and Innovators
  1983