Milton Gendel (December 16, 1918 – October 11, 2018) was an American photographer and art critic who worked for most of his career in Italy.
Gendel's photographs capture artists and intellectuals against the background of the transformation of Italy during the postwar economic boom.
[3] In 1945-46, while stationed in China with the United States Army, he captured the tumultuous period between the Japanese surrender and the advent of civil war that brought the Communists to power.
Gendel's work was the subject of dual retrospective exhibitions at the Museo Carlo Bilotti and the American Academy in Rome in 2011.
[6] Photographs and diaries from Gendel's time in Rome were published in the 2022 book Just Passing Through: A Seven-Decade Roman Holiday, edited by Cullen Murphy.