Archie Lieberman
1926 - 2008
Archie was born and raised in Chicago and attended the Chicago Institute of Design (now Illinois Institute of Technology), where he studied with Alexander Archipenko, Buckminster Fuller, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and Aaron Siskind. He also attended the Art Institute of Chicago. During World War II, he served as a Marine combat photographer in the Pacific. He was a photojournalist for magazines, advertising agencies, and corporations, including extensive work for Look Magazine between 1952 and 1972. His photographs have also appeared in such magazines as Life, Time, Fortune, Collier's, Holiday, London Illustrated, and Paris-Match. In the 1960s, Lieberman taught Photography classes at Columbia College Chicago. Lieberman was the author or photographer of more than twenty books. His photographs have been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the United States and Canada. He won numerous prizes and awards, including five from the University of Missouri School of Journalism, the Friends of Literature Award (1974, for Farm Boy), the Society of Professional Journalists’ Peter Lisagor Award (1980 for “Final Verdict”, the Chicago Book Clinic Award and selection among the Best Fifty Books of 1965 (for The Israelis), and numerous awards from photographic, typographic, and graphic design professional associations.
Archie was born and raised in Chicago and attended the Chicago Institute of Design (now Illinois Institute of Technology), where he studied with Alexander Archipenko, Buckminster Fuller, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and Aaron Siskind. He also attended the Art Institute of Chicago. During World War II, he served as a Marine combat photographer in the Pacific. He was a photojournalist for magazines, advertising agencies, and corporations, including extensive work for Look Magazine between 1952 and 1972. His photographs have also appeared in such magazines as Life, Time, Fortune, Collier's, Holiday, London Illustrated, and Paris-Match. In the 1960s, Lieberman taught Photography classes at Columbia College Chicago. Lieberman was the author or photographer of more than twenty books. His photographs have been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the United States and Canada. He won numerous prizes and awards, including five from the University of Missouri School of Journalism, the Friends of Literature Award (1974, for Farm Boy), the Society of Professional Journalists’ Peter Lisagor Award (1980 for “Final Verdict”, the Chicago Book Clinic Award and selection among the Best Fifty Books of 1965 (for The Israelis), and numerous awards from photographic, typographic, and graphic design professional associations.
