The Photography of N. R. Farbman — LIFE archive
Citation
LIFE. “The Photography of N. R. Farbman.” Institutional photographer archive page at life.com. Accessed 2026-04-24. https://www.life.com/photographer/n-r-farbman/
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Tier-3 institutional photographer-archive page for Nat Farbman (“N. R. Farbman”, 1907–1988), LIFE magazine staff photographer, whose prints appear at plate #4 (Prologue, Belgian Congo) of The Family of Man. Source for the biographical dates used in pher-nat-farbman. Also the canonical record of the Farbman / Pat English husband-and-wife photography team. Per the LIFE page (quoted verbatim under Key excerpts), Farbman’s “work on tribes in Botswana was included in the Museum of Modern Art’s Family of Man exhibit” — the specific year of that series and the exact number of images used are NOT stated on the page.
Key excerpts / pages
- “N.R. Farbman (1907-1988)” — dates recorded in the page’s biographical summary (direct quotation from fetched page).
- “During his 15 years as a LIFE staffer, ‘Nat’ was considered one of its most versatile practitioners.”
- “After he married the former fashion model and photographer Pat English in 1940, they became a husband-and-wife photographic team for the magazine.”
- Farbman’s “work on tribes in Botswana was included in the Museum of Modern Art’s Family of Man exhibit” (quoted verbatim from the fetched page). Page captions name “Bushman children” and a “Bushman chief” in “the southern Kalahari Desert in central-southern Africa.” The specific year the series was taken and the exact number of images used in the exhibition are NOT stated on this page and were NOT verified against another fetched source this round.
Notes
- Perspective: institutional photographer-archive.
- Verified against fetched source on 2026-04-24. The 1907–1988 date range is stated verbatim by LIFE’s own archive page; treated as authoritative for
pher-nat-farbman.birth_yearandpher-nat-farbman.death_year. - The page does not supply Pat English’s own birth or death years. Pat English remains uncitable from fetched sources as of 2026-04-24.
- URL stability caveat (per CREDIBILITY.md § URL stability): life.com is a commercial Meredith/Dotdash archive property, not a DOI / museum permalink / JSTOR / archive.org snapshot. No archive.org snapshot was recorded this round. The URL is subject to commercial-site link rot; re-verification periodically recommended (
scripts/check_credibility.py).