Sydney M. Irmas (July 27, 1925 – August 29, 1996)[1] was an American attorney, investor, philanthropist and art collector.
[2] Additionally, the Sydney M. Irmas Transitional Living Center in North Hollywood, through the LA Family Housing, is named in his honor.
Their collection included photographs by Alphonse Louis Poitevin, Berenice Abbott, Piet Zwart, Peter Keetman, Robert Mapplethorpe, Andy Warhol, Lee Friedlander, Edward Steichen, Cindy Sherman, Yasumasa Morimura, Claude Cahun, Pierre Molinier, Roger Fenton, Francis Frith, etc.
[2][6][7] An exhibition of 140 of their donated works entitled The Camera I: Photographic Self-Portraits From the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection took place at the LACMA in 1994.
[2][8] Another exhibition, entitled Masquerade: Role Playing in Self-Portraiture—Photographs from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection, took place from October 12, 2006, to January 7, 2007.
[3] The Audrey and Sydney Irmas Campus of the Wilshire Boulevard Temple,[10] a Reform synagogue in Los Angeles, was dedicated in 1998.