Roxanne lowit biography

          A pioneer, Lowit has always done things differently.

        1. A pioneer, Lowit has always done things differently.
        2. Born and raised in New York City, Lowit attended the Fashion Institute of Technology before embarking on a successful first career as a textile.
        3. Lowit did not go to school to be a photographer.
        4. Roxanne Elizabeth Lowit was born on Feb. 2, , in Manhattan, the eldest of five children of Lester and Rebecca (Zuckerman) Lowit, and grew.
        5. Having invented backstage fashion photography, Lowit solidified her place in fashion history as the gifted documentarian of a world everyone wants to be in .

          6. Lowit did not go to school to be a photographer.!

          Roxanne Lowit

          American photographer (1942–2022)

          Roxanne Elizabeth Lowit (February 22, 1942 – September 13, 2022)[1] was an American fashion and celebrity photographer.

          Lowit was said to have "become as much a celebrity as those she photographed."[2][3]

          Career

          Lowit did not go to school to be a photographer. She graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York with a degree in art history and textile design and worked as a textile designer for a decade, collaborating with designers like Donna Karan, Jean Muir, and Scott Barrie.[4] She took an early interest in photographing her friends with her with a 110 Instamatic camera gifted to her by Antonio Lopez.[5] "I paint and there were people who I wanted to sit for me but they had no time, so I started taking pictures of them.

          I liked the gratification of getting the instant image so I traded in my paintbrushes for a camera."[citation needed]

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