Anna Riwkin

Riwkin, Anna (1908-70), Russian-born Swedish photographer, initially trained as a dancer. Her first studio, specializing in portraiture and dance photography, opened in 1928. After succeeding as a portraitist she moved into reportage and book production. After The Art of Dance in Sweden, further books resulted from travel in Israel, Greece, Yugoslavia, and Korea, and among northern Sweden's Sami people. Her portrait of Elle Kari, a young Sami girl, being dressed by her father, and an image of an Israeli woman with upstretched arms, appeared in the Family of Man exhibition in 1954.

— Jan-Erik Lundström

Bibliography

• Wigh, L., Anna Riwkin: Porträtt av en fotograf (2004)