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Listen: The Assorted Selections ProgramSarasota photographer Joe Steinmetz with his wife Lois Foley Steinmetz on assignment in the Florida Keys for "Holiday Magazine".
Image Number
Rights
Collection
N2011- 7, Photographic collection, 1930s-1970s; Box 9
Geographic Term
Subject Term
Photographic industry--Florida--Sarasota County--Sarasota
Commercial photography--Equipment and supplies
Advertising photography--Equipment and supplies
Cameras
Photographers--Florida--Monroe County--Islamorada
Couples--Florida--Monroe County--Islamorada
Married people--Florida--Monroe County--Islamorada
Personal Subjects
Physical Description
General Note
Accompanying note: "Lois and Joseph Janney Steinmetz, nationally famous magazine and advertising photographers of Sarasota, Florida, who are photographers and publishers of 'Colorful Florida', a weekly engagement calendar with 55 different full color photographs of scenes from all over the state of Florida."
Biographical Note
Joseph Janney Steinmetz was a world-renowned commercial photographer whose images appeared in such publications as the Saturday Evening Post, Life, Look, Time, Holiday, Collier's, and Town & Country. His work has been referred to as "an American social history," which documented diverse scenes of American life from affluent northeasterners to middle-class Floridians. Steinmetz moved from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Sarasota, Florida in 1941.
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