Camhi, Morrie, 1928-1999

Morrie Camhi was born in New York City in 1928, a descendant of Greek Sephardic Jews, and died in 1999 in Petaluma, California, where he lived with his family. He majored in English Literature at UCLA, then went on to a career in commercial photography; in the late 1960s he sold his business and began focusing on documentary work and teaching photography at San Francisco's City College. His work has been exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and in Chicago and New York, as well as galleries and museums in Europe, Israel, Japan and New Zealand, and his photographs have also been published in many books and photography journals.

From the guide to the Morrie Camhi photographs, 1960s-2012 and undated, (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University)