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Shelley Gazin (American, b. Los Angeles, 1950-) is a Los Angeles-based editorial and documentary photographer, artist and educator who has contributed to the field of ethnographic studies over the course of a 35-year career span to date. A pioneer in experimental video and electronic education in the early 1970's, she studied with Mitsuru Katoaka, John Neuhart, Robert Heinecken and Robert Fichter. First published while living and working Paris Gazin returned to the U.S. as an assignment photographer for the L.A. Times, Newsweek, Time Forbes, Elle, The washington Post, San jose Mercury News among others. Gazin's editorial work has been syndicated internationally by Corbis Images ImageWorks, Ny, Bettman-Corbis, Getty Images, etc. for twenty-five years.

Gazin's seminal exhibition Looking for a Rabbi premiered at the Skirball Cultural Center & Museum, Los Angeles, CA in July 2001 and noted in the Los Angeles Times as a ''Best Bet." Former Skirball Fine Art Senior Curator Barbara Gilbert acknowledges Gazin's process in her catalogue essay

As an award-winning recipient of grrants provided by the California Council for the Humanities/California Stories Documentary Project [2005], The Durfee Foundation [2005], James T. Irvine Foundation 2003, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture [2005], Jonathan Heritage Foundation [2012], Righteous Person Foundation [2005 and 2012], Center for Cultural Innovation 2012, Center for iranian Creativity [2012] and others, Gazin originated a corpus of imagery describing the Iranian-jewish demographic in Southern California, a selection of which exhibited at the Fowler Museum at UCLA (2012-13) contextualized in Light & Shadows: The Story of Iranian Jews originally organized by Beit Hafutstot, Tel Aviv. l=Journal of Jewish Studies|date=2010|volume=Conference Issue, September 201|accessdate=8 March 2015}}

Selections from the Gazin archive have been featured annually at the Los Angeles as Subject Archives Bazaar, hosted by USC Libraries.

Categories American photographers Jewish Artists Photojournalists Corbis Photographers Women Photographers Women's Caucaus for the Arts

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