Estelle Jussim
(b. 1927)

Estelle Jussim is known as a critic and historian of photography. Since 1972, she has been a professor of film, photography, and visual communications at Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts. She has written numerous books about photography and photographers including F. Holland Day, Harold Edgerton, Frederick Remington, and John Pfahl.

Daughter of photographer Boris Ossipovich and yManya Aaronovna (Glusker) Jussim, Estelle Jussim was born in New York City. She attended Queens University and in 1970 earned a doctorate in library science from Columbia University.

Jussim received an award for distinguished achievement in the history of photography from the New York Photographic Historical Society in 1974 for her book Visual Communication and the Graphic Art (1974). This work investigates the path photography has taken in becoming the dominant form of visual communication. In 1981, Jussim won the L. L. Winship/Pen Award for Slave to Beauty: The Eccentric Life & Career of F. Holland Day: Photographer and Publisher (1981). The Eternal Moment (1989) is a collection of Jussim's essays on contemporary photography.

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