Ike Vern

[6][1] Later he took photographs for in-house publications of large corporations and made documentary films for the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies in New York.

His more famous subjects included Frank Sinatra whom he photographed in 1945 in his dressing room at the Paramount Theatre and again in the company of organized crime figure Aniello Dellacroce (1963),[9] General Eisenhower in 1951[6] Dr. Selman Waksman, discoverer of streptomycin,[10] and Betty Friedan.

[13] In 1955 Edward Steichen selected a photograph by Vern for the world-touring Museum of Modern Art exhibition The Family of Man that was seen by 9 million visitors.

The carefully flash-lit shot shows two men earnestly playing checkers in a North Carolina grocery store amongst the packaged loaves of bread, jars of sweets and sacks of flour, surrounded by three onlookers; a bemused man drinking soda and three elderly women in aprons, while in the background a laden customer exits through the screen-doors onto the porch.

[15] In the late 70s he created photographic murals for New York City high schools and La Guardia airport.