Lida Moser, Courtesy Alida Anderson Art Projects

Lida Moser, whose genre-spanning photographs appeared in magazines including Look, Esquire and Vogue during their heyday in the 1950s and ’60s and who went on to write about photography for The New York Times, died on Aug. 11 near her home in Rockville, Md. She was 93.

Her death was confirmed by her friend Lenny Campello, who was also her art dealer.

In the late 1940s Ms. Moser became a member of the Photo League, a loose-knit cooperative of photographers, including Berenice Abbott and Weegee (the pseudonym of Arthur Fellig), dedicated to capturing the reality of life in New York.

Ms. Moser excelled at photojournalism at a time when women were a rarity in the field. Vogue sent her to Britain to photograph artists and writers in 1949, and then to Quebec in 1950 to capture life in its rural towns.....Continue Reading

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