Nickolas Muray
- Muray attended a graphic arts school in Budapest, where he studied lithography, photoengraving, and photography.
- took a three-year course in color photoengraving in Berlin,
- In 1913, with the threat of war in Europe, Muray sailed to New York City, and was able to find work as a color printer in Brooklyn.
- 1920, Muray had opened a portrait studio at his home in Greenwich Village
- In 1921 he received a commission from Harper's Bazaar to do a portrait of the Broadway actress Florence Reed; soon after he was having photographs published each month in Harper's Bazaar.
- Between 1920 and 1940, Nickolas Muray made over 10,000 portraits.
- His 1938's portrait of Frida Kahlo, made while Kahlo sojourned in New York, attending her exhibit at the Julien Levy Gallery, became the best known and loved portrait made by Muray
- From here on, Muray and Kahlo developed an intense affair by 10 years, which ended once Kahlo decided that she was staying with Rivera and not with Muray, who married his fourth wife.
- After the market crash, Murray turned away from celebrity and theatrical portraiture, and become a pioneering commercial photographer, famous for his creation of many of the conventions of color advertising
- He was considered the master of the three-color carbro process.(Using Carbon and phosphorus to print pictures in a dark room)
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