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Jim Steinhardt (1917- 2010) is best known for the photographs he took while walking the streets of New York City in the 1940's and 1950's, although he continued to take and exhibit his photographs up to a few years before his death in 2010. His photographs have been published in well-known periodicals including Life Magazine and B&W (Black and White Magazine for Collectors of Fine Photography).

His working life spanned several careers, first as a photo retoucher of newspaper and magazine advertisements. During the mid to later 1950's, he operated a commercial photography studio in mid-town New York City serving the advertising industry. In 1959, he purchased an art gallery in Westbury, NY and renamed it the Steinhardt Gallery. Several years later, he moved the gallery to Huntington, NY where he sold fine art, object d"art (such as blown art glass) and did custom framing. He was joined in this enterprise by his wife, Sylvia Heimer Steinhardt, who expanded the gallery to include a jewelry section where she displayed and sold fine wearable art created by craft artists.

In addition to fine art photography, Jim Steinhardt's artistic endeavors extended into painting, sculpture, poetry and cartooning. He studied at the Art Student's League and was a member of the New York Photo League.