Lisl Steiner Obituary

Lisl Steiner was an Austrian-American photographer.

Steiner was known for her photographs of political and cultural figures of the 1950s and 60s, including Fidel Castro, Oscar Niemeyer, and others. Her photojournalism career began around age 30 when she published a photograph of Argentina’s president, Pedro Eugenio Aramburu for Life magazine.

In 1960, she moved to New York and began freelancing for Time, Newsweek, The New York Times Life, and Associated Press. That year, she photographed Fidel Castro during a famous visit to the United Nations. Her subjects from this time include artist, Heri Carteir-Bresson, US President, Jimmy Carter and the state funeral of John F Kennedy.

In 2000, the Leica Gallery in Manhattan held a retrospective of her work. She died on June 7, 2023.