Paul Himmel (1914 – February 8, 2009) was a fashion and documentary photographer in the United States.
[2] He took up photography as a teenager and studied graphic journalism under art director Alexey Brodovitch.
In the 1950s, Himmel started his own projects, including series on boxers, the circus and ballet.
He experimented with grain structure in his negatives and prints, using a series of silhouetted and elongated forms abbreviated almost to the point of abstraction.
His subjects ranged from New York City scenes to nudes reduced to grainy vestiges to color abstractions.