Nat Farbman
Plates contributed
The 5 plates attributed to Nat Farbman in the 1955 MoMA Master Checklist (Exhibition #569).
| ID | Country | Section | Year | View |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| photo-0004 | Belgian Congo | Prologue | — | Clervaux |
| photo-0062 | Bechuanaland | Family and children | — | Clervaux |
| photo-0103 | Bechuanaland | Family and children | — | Clervaux |
| photo-0109 | Bechuanaland | Family and children | — | Clervaux |
| photo-0117 | Bechuanaland | Work | — | Clervaux |
Notes
Plate #4 (Prologue, Belgian Congo). LIFE staff photographer, full name N. R. Farbman. Checklist nationality: American. Dates 1907–1988 filled from LIFE’s own photographer-archive page (life.com/photographer/n-r-farbman, fetched 2026-04-24). Husband-and-wife photography team with Pat English from 1940 per LIFE’s own archive; LIFE’s page confirms Farbman’s ‘work on tribes in Botswana was included’ in The Family of Man (verbatim quote), without specifying the year of the series or the number of plates. Note: current photo_count=1 reflects MoMA Master Checklist plate #4 only; if additional Farbman plates exist in the 503-image exhibition (the catalog is 192/503 as of this PR), photo_count should be revised during a future catalog-builder batch.
External biography
https://www.life.com/photographer/n-r-farbman/
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