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Georgia Litwack
American photographer

Georgia Litwack

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American photographer
A.K.A.
Georgia Shuset Georgia Shuset Litwack
Gender
Female
Place of birth
Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA
Place of death
Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Age
98 years
Education
bachelor's degree
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, USA
(-1942)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Middlesex County, USA
Employers
United Press
USA
(1942-)
Museum of Science
Boston, Suffolk County, USA
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park
Massachusetts, USA
Radcliffe College
Cambridge, Middlesex County, USA
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Biography

Georgia Shuset Litwack was born in January 27 in Pennsylvania. She was an American photographer and photojournalist, best known for her portraits of notable women in the arts, science and technology.

Early life

Georgia Shuset was born in Pittsburgh, the daughter of Jacob Shuset and Rose Katz Shuset. Her parents were Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe who ran a candy business. She graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 1942. She later studied photographry with Minor White at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Career

After college, Shuset worked as a staff writer for the United Press. As a wife and mother in the Boston area, she had public relations jobs at the Boston Children's Museum and the Museum of Science, and contributed photographs and articles to The Boston Globe. As her photography practice became more advanced, she began teaching classes in the subject at Radcliffe, at the DeCordova Museum School of Art in Lincoln, and in workshops for various audiences throughout greater Boston.

Litwack's photography projects included Born Early: The Story of a Premature Baby (1983), a book and exhibit documenting a baby's first months, with pediatrician Mary Ellen Avery as co-author; and portraits of notable women in arts, science and technology, exhibited several times and now in the collection of the Schlesinger Library. Her subjects included art educator Elma Lewis, physicist Margaret MacVicar, poet Maxine Kumin, anthropologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, computer scientist Shafira Goldwasser, and physicist Mildred Dresselhaus. She contributed photographs to the calendar Jewish Women Around the World. She was working on a project about photographer Jessie Tarbox Beals at the time of her death.

Personal life

Georgia Shuset married lawyer John Litwack in 1945. They lived in Newton, Massachusetts, and had two daughters, Deborah and Helen. Her husband died in 2010. Georgia Litwack died in 2020 from COVID-19, in Auburndale, Massachusetts, at age 98. Her papers are housed at the Schlesinger Library.

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