Jill Krementz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Jill Krementz

American photographer and author

Date of Birth: 19-Feb-1940

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Profession: photographer, writer, children's writer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Jill Krementz

  • Jill Krementz (born February 19, 1940) is a well known American photographer and author.
  • She has published 31 books, mostly of photography and children's books.Krementz grew up in Morristown, New Jersey, and moved to New York City in her late teens.
  • In 1961 she received a Nikon camera as a twenty-first birthday present, and continued to build a career as a photographer and photojournalist.
  • In the 1960s she worked as a photographer for the New York Herald-Tribune.
  • Her color photography of the "March on the Pentagon" was featured on the cover of The New York Times Magazine.
  • In 1965, she spent a year taking photographs in Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
  • Her photojournalist works have appeared in the New York Observer.Krementz later specialized in photographing writers.
  • A major profile of her - written by Dorothy Gelatt - was published in the Spring 1975 issue of 35mm Photography (Ziff-Davis Publishing Company).
  • According to the article, Krementz decided in 1970 to "...fill the author picture vacuum...".
  • Working only with the aid of a secretary she built and ran a large library of photographs of authors.
  • Most of her photographs at that time were in black and white.
  • The article described her as working with a minimum of photographic equipment (two 35mm camera bodies and three lenses) and having her prints made by Erika Leone at the Meridian photographic laboratory.
  • At the time the article was written, "...the Krementz stock list of authors totalled roughly 542...".
  • Four years later, her count was over 800.Krementz's photographs were exhibited at Nikon House Gallery in New York the mid-1970s.
  • In 1980 her book The Writer's Image (David R.
  • Godine, Boston) was published, featuring black-and-white photographs, with a preface written by Kurt Vonnegut, and an introduction by Trudy Butner Krisher.
  • In 1984 Krementz was awarded the Washington Post/Children’s Book Guild Nonfiction Award for “creatively produced books, works that make a difference.”In 2004, a major exhibition of her work was held at the Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford, Connecticut.
  • Writers Unbound featured warm, intimate portraits of authors in their homes and at their desks.
  • Krementz is the widow of author Kurt Vonnegut and has one daughter, Lily.

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