Biography of art kane with photographie

Award-winning US fashion and music photographer

Art Kane (born Arthur Kanofsky; April 9, 1925 – February 3, 1995) was an American fashion and music photographer active from the 1950s through the early 1990s.

He created many portraits of contemporary musicians, including Bob Dylan, Jefferson Airplane, Sonny and Cher, Aretha Franklin, Frank Zappa, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, the Rolling Stones, and The Who.

Kane was born in New York City to Russian Jewish parents.^[1] Wanting to become an illustrator, he attended the Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture before joining the U.S.

Army during the Second World War.^[2] He served in an unusual Army deception unit known as the Ghost Army, an incubator for many young artists.^[3] At age 26, he became the art director for Seventeen magazine, one of the youngest art directors of a major publication.

He began to explore his passion for photography, eventually studying under the legendary Ale