Peter_B._Martin
Peter B. Martin
American photographer and publisher
Peter B. Martin, Sr. (1915–1992) was an American photographer and publisher. Martin was one of the top[citation needed] New York City publishing photographers in the 1950s, with work published in Mademoiselle,[1] Cosmopolitan,[2][3] Life,[4] and McCall's.[5]
From the late 1940s to the 1960s, he was a fashion photographer and photojournalist. He photographed many celebrities including Frank Sinatra,[6] Bunk Johnson, Edgar Bergen,[7] Imogene Coca,[8] Edward R Murrow,[9] Arthur Schlesinger, Jr,[10] Leonard Bernstein,[11] Eleanor Roosevelt,[5] Natalie Wood, James Dean, Vera Zorina, Kim Novak, Ann Francis, Sheree North, Walt Disney, Jack Webb,[3] the Allman Brothers, Jim Morrison, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, The Grateful Dead and Janis Joplin.[12] In addition to his photography, Martin published periodicals about photography (Figure[13] and Photography Workshop[14]) during the early 1950s, and in the late 1950s and 1960s he published television and music magazines (Movie Teen Illustrated[citation needed] and Pop Rock[12]).