DUBUQUE, IA (March 26, 2008) - Photographer Archie Lieberman, 81, who did extensive work for Look magazine between 1952 and 1972, and whose photographs were exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Art Institute of Chicago, died March 12 at a care facility in Dubuque, Iowa.
Born in Chicago in 1926, Lieberman went to school at the Chicago Institute of Design and also at the Art Institute of Chicago. He worked as a general assignment magazine photographer during the heyday of magazines and his pictures were published in Life, Time, Fortune, Collier's, Holiday, London Illustrated, Paris-Match, and many others.
He's authored, or had his work appear in, more than 20 books, most notably The Israelis (1966), Farm Boy (1974), and Neighbors (1993). During World War II he served as a Marine combat photographer in the Pacific. After visiting Knox College for a retrospective show of his work in 1993, Lieberman returned as a guest lecturer who taught photography in 1998 and most recently in 2006. He also did commercial and advertising photography later in his career, including pictures for Land's End (who sponsored an exhibit of Lieberman's work at Knox College).
The photographer is survived by his wife of 60 years, Esther, and two sons, Eric and Robert, both of Chicago, along with a brother and grandsons. A funeral service was held March 17 in Arlington Heights, IL.
