Photo Essay – MIT Design Class, 1964.

MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Design Class
Photographer: Fritz Goro, 1964
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Gorgeous black and white imagery by LIFE magazine photographer Fritz Goro (1901–1986). Mr. Goro specialized in scientific photography for LIFE and Scientific American magazines. In fact, it is reported he invented photo macrography, “making visible the world that lies between the microscope and the naked eye.” (NYT Obit)

After being trained on the editorial staffs of two German magazines, Fritz Goro was forced by the Nazis to abandon his career. He and his family emigrated to France in 1933 and he turned to a second career, photography, in order to survive. He discovered that he could apply what he had learned in Germany about candid photography to his own photoreportages. Goro wanted to emigrate to America but had trouble obtaining a visa. He finally arrived in the United States with is family in 1936. Goro than joined Black Star and, like other photographers who had fled Hitler, he produced photo essays for LIFE Magazine. After five years with the agency, Goro went directly under contract to LIFE. He became a staff photographer in 1944 and was a scientific/medical specialist for twenty-seven years. During conversation on two separate occasions with Goro, it became clear that his background, discipline, and talent enabled him and others like him to move into the mainstream of the developing American picture magazine business…

Fritz Goro on Tape: An Emigre Photojournalist’s Professional Biography
by C. Zoe Smith, 1985
Read full paper in PDF format (Editor’s note: Short paper, an excellent read.)

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See/learn more:
NYT Obituary, 1986
Posters & Prints

[ All images via LIFE photo archives / ©LIFE ]

[ All images via LIFE photo archives / ©LIFE ]
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