Ralph Steiner
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About
Avant-garde photographer and influential filmmaker from the 1930s.
Before Fame
He studied photography at Dartmouth College and then took a job as a freelance photographer for advertisers and magazines.
Trivia
Among his most notable works was the 1936 film The Plow That Broke the Plains: a documentary about the dust bowl and 1938's The City, which was a critically acclaimed film about New York.
Family Life
He was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio.
Associated With
His 1935 Pie in the Sky was the earliest film worked on by Elia Kazan.
