John Albok [SEP] country of origin
John Albok
John Albok (1894–1982) was a Hungarian photographer who immigrated to the United States and documented street scenes in New York City during the Great Depression and later.
Youth.
John Albok was born in Munkacs, Hungary, in what is now the Ukraine. After apprenticing to a tailor from the ages of 13 to 17, he was drafted into the Hungarian army. He began photographing life in the hospital and prison where he worked. During the war, Albok's father killed himself and two of his
-1982 : through the eye of the needle = Albók János : keresztül a tű fokán". Budapest: Budapest Galéria; Hungarian Multicultural Center, Inc., 1998.
- "John Albok, for the children : September 15 to October 14, 1995." Dallas: Photographic Archives Gallery, 1995.
External links.
- Images by John Albok in the collections of the Museum of the City of New York.
- The John Albok Photograph Collection at the New-York Historical Society