Ida Dora Wyman (March 7, 1926 – July 13, 2019) was an American photographer best known for her documentary photography of New York street life.
Wyman can be heard as a contestant on the 15th November 1950 edition of You Bet Your Life.
Wyman died in Fitchburg, Wisconsin on Saturday, July 13, 2019.
By 1962 Wyman had given up professional photography, taking a job at Haskins Laboratories in New York. Manhattan. She returned to photography in 1968, as a pathology photographer in the department of medicine at Columbia University. It was not until her 70s and 80s that she began to receive critical acclaim for her work.
Her work is included in the permanent collection of the Jewish Museum, New York.
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