Evelyne Daitz
Swiss-American photography dealer
Evelyne Z. Daitz (April 13, 1936 – October 31, 2019) was a Swiss-born American art dealer, curator, and agent, specializing in photography. She was the owner and director of the Witkin Gallery in New York from 1984 to 1999.
Early life
Eveline Iris Zoller was born on April 13, 1936, in Dardagny, Switzerland, the daughter of Johann Zoller and Pauline Feller Zoller. Her father was a blacksmith, and her parents ran a gas station and shop. Eveline Zoller moved to the United States to work as an au pair. She became Eveline Daitz when she married Howard C. Daitz, a photography dealer, in 1962. When she became an American citizen in 1965, she began using the spelling "Evelyne" for her first name.
Career
Daitz helped to run the Witkin Gallery, "the first commercially successful photographic gallery in New York City", with its founder, Lee D. Witkin, from 1976 until his death in 1984. Then she became owner and director of the Witkin Gallery for fifteen years, moving it from E. 57th Street to SoHo in 1985, and closing the gallery and bookstore in 1999. She chose photographers to feature in the gallery, promoting the works of Jill Freedman, Evelyn Hofer, Ruth Orkin, Marion Palfi, Burk Uzzle, and Jerry Uelsmann among many others.
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