Weiner, Stuart A., 1915-1985.

Stuart Weiner was born in New York City in 1915 and graduated from James Monroe High School in 1930. He attended both the City College of New York and New York University before beginning his career in photography. He worked at Abe Cohen's Camera Exchange in Manhattan and was also employed as a movie photographer for the City of New York during the 1930s. He was drafted into the United States Army in the fall of 1941 and served in the Signal Corps. Upon his discharge in 1946, he returned to his position at the New York City Board of Water Supply. Weiner left New York in September of 1949 to become a freelance photographer in Phoenix, Arizona. He attended classes at Arizona State College, where he met artist Eugene Grigsby, who introduced Weiner to architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Weiner was invited several times to photograph Wright, his daughter Iovanna, apprentices and the buildings and grounds at Taliesin West, near Phoenix. Weiner was also closely associated with Arizona architect Paolo Soleri, for whom he took many photographs. Additionally, Weiner was a member of the American Society of Magazine Photographers. Weiner died in 1985.