Photographer · Museum staff
Reuben Goldberg
d. 1960
Photographer of the University Museum in Philadelphia who improved the photographs for the Kourion terracotta figurines book and worked on the Bamboula volume until his death in 1960.
Biography
Reuben Goldberg was the photographer of the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania, and two of its Kourion publications owe their illustrations in part to him. In their book on the terracotta figurines from Kourion, published in 1955, John Howard Young and Suzanne Halstead Young thank "Mr. Reuben Goldberg of the Museum" for having "much improved some of our worst photographs"2.
He also took on the photography for J. L. Benson's volume on the Bamboula necropolis at Kourion. Benson's preface describes him as "the photographer of the University Museum", credits him with the great amount of complex photographic work the volume required, and says he was completing its last stages almost at the hour of his untimely death in 19601. Nothing further is recorded of his birth, training or earlier career. The book appeared in 1972, and its plates mix his photographs with those of Daniel, G. Roger Edwards, Benson and photographers of the Cyprus Museum, a result of the division of the finds among Curium House, the Cyprus Museum and the University Museum1.
Life and work
- 1955The Youngs thank him for much improving some of their worst photographs for 'Terracotta Figurines from Kourion in Cyprus'.
PhiladelphiaYoung & Young 1955
- 1960Died suddenly in 1960 while completing the last stages of the complex photographic work for Benson's Bamboula volume.
- 1972Benson's plates combine photographs by Daniel, Edwards, Goldberg, Benson and Cyprus Museum photographers, because finds were divided among Curium House, the Cyprus Museum and the University Museum.
Connections
4 peopleColleagues & contacts
- Worked with Jack L. Benson1960
- Worked with G. Roger Edwards
- Worked with John Howard Young
- Worked with Suzanne Halstead Young
Sources
- 1.J. L. Benson (1972). Bamboula at Kourion: The Necropolis and the Finds Excavated by J. F. Daniel. Philadelphia, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania.
- 2.John Howard Young, Suzanne Halstead Young (1955). Terracotta Figurines from Kourion in Cyprus. Philadelphia, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania.