Sid Kaplan • Star of David, Lower East Side, New York City, NY, c. 1989/1992

Todd Weinstein • Marais, Paris, 2022

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Sid Kaplan American, B 1938

Photographer, Teacher, master printer

After graduating from The School of Industrial Arts, Sid worked from 1956 until 1962 at a series of nondescript minimumwage jobs in the photography industry. These years eventually led to a black-and-white printer’s position at Compo, the premiere custom lab in Manhattan. At Compo, Sid printed for some of the greatest photographers of the last 50 years. (Robert Frank, Louis Fauer, Louis Stettner).

In 1968 Sid left Compo to become an independent printer. He has made more than 91,000 images, not counting the bad rolls of film he decided not to keep.

The Rose Library at Emory University, Atlanta, GA recently purchased Sid Kaplan’s negatives, contact sheets, and two copies of all of the images.

Photo by Cristian