Ida Wyman

Ida Dora Wyman (March 7, 1926 – July 13, 2019) was an American photographer best known for her documentary photography of New York street life.

Wyman began her photography career while she was in high school, by taking photos of her neighborhood.

[2] Working from the west coast, she was often assigned to photograph movie stars on set, such as James Cagney in White Heat.

[8] By 1962 Wyman had given up professional photography, taking a job at Haskins Laboratories in New York.

She returned to photography in 1968, as a pathology photographer in the department of medicine at Columbia University.