Tana Hoban

[1] Abraham Hoban, an advertising manager for Jewish Daily World, enrolled Tana in art classes when she was very young.

Back in the U.S. she married photographer Edward E. Gallob in 1939 (they divorced in 1982) and taught herself photography.

"[5] Hoban created picture books out of photos that taught educational concepts such as signs and symbols, the alphabet, numbers, shapes, colors, animals, opposites, sizes, and prepositions.

She goes on to say "I try in my books to catch a fleeting moment and an emotion in a way that touches children....Through my photograph and through open eyes I try to say 'Look!

[6] Hoban spent the last two decades of her life in Paris with her second husband, John G. Morris, a photo editor at The New York Times.