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Sanford Harrison Roth is a short, cocky, square-jawed man who has made a career of taking candid photographs of artists and musicians. This week, after nearly 80,000 people had trooped past a showing of his photos in Chicago's Art Institute, Roth was in an understandably satisfied mood. Said he: "Even if everybody else did not like my pictures, there is always one person who does...
...Next to Roth himself, his biggest fans are his subjects. Most of them-Picasso, Utrillo, Giacometti, Cocteau, Dufy, Leger, Milhaud-gave Roth nearly all the time he needed to make his pictures. The result: his portraits have a quality that seems to capture a sense of his subjects' work as well as their personalities...
Bikes & Bags. At 46, Sanford Roth is a relative newcomer to big-time photography. Born in Brooklyn, he went through the public schools and New York University, spending most of his time bicycle racing ("I loved the competition-I like to be better than anyone else-and I liked the glamour and those sweaters we wore"). After college, Roth got a job with a ladies' hat-and-bag retail chain, and in a few years was vice president in charge of the chain's West Coast territory. By 1946, he was making better than $30,000 a year...
...Roth was becoming less interested in hats and more intrigued with his new hobby-photography. Says he: "I looked about me and realized that I was getting old and not having any fun. The other men who were in the hat business were not friends of mine. I liked the arts and good music . . . I decided that I would quit." He talked it over with his wife Beulah, and gave his boss a year's notice. In 1947, on his own at last, Roth took his wife and camera to Europe...
...women connected with I.P.R. and involved by evidence in pro-Communist activities were out of reach (abroad, dead, in hiding, etc,) of subpoena. Included: Gunther Stein, Agnes Smedley, Andrew Roth...