Herman Mishkin (March 1870 – February 6, 1948) was a Russian-American photographer in Manhattan, New York City. He specialized in photographing opera singers.[1] Mishkin was born in Minsk, Russian Empire in March 1870. He migrated to the United States in 1885. He bought a camera and started taking photographs in the 1880s.[2] He married and had a son, Leo Mishkin.[3] He died on February 6, 1948.[4]
Herman Mishkin was the foremost portrayer of Golden Era opera singers.
Born in New York the son of Herman Mishkin, photographer of the Metropolitan Opera from 1905 to 1932, Mr. Mishkin began his career as an office boy in the ...
Herman Mishkin, retired photographer who did much work for the Metropolitan Opera Company, died yesterday in his home, 139 West Eighty-second Street, after ...