{{short description|Polish-American photographer}}
'''Sandra Weiner''' ({{nee}} Smith; 1921–2014) was a Polish-American street photographer and children's book author.<ref name="ICP">{{Cite web | url=https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/sandra-weiner?all/all/all/all/0 |title = Sandra Weiner|date = 2019-09-02}}</ref>
Weiner was born in Drohiczan, Poland, and emigrated to the United States in 1928.<ref name="ICP"/><ref>{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FsdLAQAAIAAJ&q=sandra+weiner+photo+league |title = This was the Photo League: Compassion and the Camera from the Depression to the Cold War|last1 = Tucker|first1 = Anne|year = 2001}}</ref> She joined the Photo League in 1942. There, she first studied under photographers Paul Strand, and Dan Weiner whom she would later marry.<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/02/lens/dan-weiner-new-york-photography.html |title = The Radical Empathy of Dan Weiner|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 2018-08-02|last1 = Gonzalez|first1 = David}}</ref><ref name="Tales">{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7p3WTCSBZb4C&q=sandra+weiner+photo+league&pg=PA134 |title = Tales for Little Rebels: A Collection of Radical Children's Literature|isbn = 9780814757208|last1 = Mickenberg|first1 = Julia A.|date = November 2008| publisher=NYU Press }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NzI5AQAAIAAJ&q=sandra+weiner+photo+league |title = Aperture 112: The Storyteller|isbn = 9780893812867|author1 = Aperture|year = 1988| publisher=Aperture }}</ref> Following the dissolution of the Photo League in 1951, she was a commercial photographer in the 1950s and later wrote four published children's books.<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tnlLAQAAIAAJ&q=sandra+weiner+photo+league |title = A History of Women Photographers|last1 = Rosenblum|first1 = Naomi|year = 2010| publisher=Abbeville Press Publishers |isbn = 9780789209986}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y0nFBQAAQBAJ&q=sandra+weiner+children%27s+books&pg=PT142 | title=Children's Literature and New York City| isbn=9781135923006| last1=Whyte| first1=Padraic| last2=O'Sullivan| first2=Keith| date=2014-01-10| publisher=Routledge}}</ref>
==Collections== Weiner's work is held in the following permanent collections: *San Francisco Museum of Art<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.sfmoma.org/artist/Sandra_Weiner/ |title = Sandra Weiner · SFMOMA}}</ref> *International Center of Photography<ref name="ICP"/> *Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: 1 print (as of August 2020)<ref>{{cite web|accessdate=2020-08-21|url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/266703?searchField=All&sortBy=Relevance&ft=Sandra+Weiner&offset=0&rpp=20&pos=1|website=www.metmuseum.org|title=Boy in Chair on Sidewalk]}}</ref> *Akron Art Museum<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://akronartmuseum.org/collection/Obj2549?sid=1&x=15915898 |title = Easter Morning, Ninth Avenue - Online Collection - Akron Art Museum}}</ref>
Her personal papers are held in the University of Minnesota libraries.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://archives.lib.umn.edu/repositories/4/resources/5743 |title = Collection: Sandra Weiner Papers | University of Minnesota Archival Collections Guides}}</ref>
==Children's books== *''It's Wings That Make Birds Fly'' (1968)<ref name="Tales"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V60iAQAAIAAJ&q=sandra+weiner+black+boy|title=Book World|date=December 7, 1968|publisher=Washington Post Newspaper|via=Google Books}}</ref> *''Small Hands, Big Hands'' (1970)<ref name="Tales"/> *''They Call Me Jack'' (1973)<ref name="Tales"/> *''I Want to be a Fisherman'' (1977)<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RBHbAAAAMAAJ&q=I+Want+to+be+a+Fisherman+weiner | title=Fishing: An Introduction to Fishing for Fun and Food for Blind and Physically Handicapped Individuals| year=1988}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t4UYAAAAYAAJ&q=Sports+Illustrated+Magazine+sandra+weiner|title=Images of Blacks in American Culture: ˜aœ Reference Guide to Information Sources|first=Jessie Carney|last=Smith|date=December 7, 1988|publisher=Greenwood Press|isbn=9780313248443|via=Google Books}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{Official website|https://viviancherry.com}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Weiner, Sandra}} Category:Street photographers Category:20th-century American photographers Category:Polish emigrants to the United States Category:1921 births Category:2014 deaths Category:20th-century American women photographers Category:21st-century American women
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