Source
Nat Farbman
Citation
Nat Farbman. Wikipedia. Fetched 2026-05-19 from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_Farbman.
Tier justification
Tier 3: Wikipedia pointer-only per CREDIBILITY.md. The birth year (1907, Poland), death year (1988, USA), immigration year (1911), LIFE tenure (1946–1961), and Family of Man plate count (six photographs from the Bechuanaland series) are corroborated at the year level by the pre-existing LIFE archive page (src-life-archive-farbman-bio, fetched 2026-04-24 and re-accessed 2026-05-19).
Key excerpts / pages
Verbatim claims from article (fetched 2026-05-19):
- “born 1907 in Poland” / “died 1988 in the United States” / “immigrated to United States 1911”
- “photographer for LIFE magazine from 1946 to 1961”
- “married Patsy (Pat) English, a model who became a photographer, in 1938” — NOTE: discrepancy with LIFE archive page (src-life-archive-farbman-bio) which gives 1940 as the marriage year and calls her “Pat English”; Wikipedia gives 1938 and “Patsy (Pat) English.”
- Pat English “learned photography from Ansel Adams” whom she met in 1936 working as his commercial model
- Family of Man: “Six photographs from his Bechuanaland series were featured in The Family of Man, with the most renowned being ‘‘Kung San storyteller’’.”
- Initial LIFE assignment: Greek elections, April 1946; then Italy, Austria, South Africa
Notes
- MARRIAGE YEAR DISCREPANCY: Wikipedia says 1938; LIFE archive (fetched 2026-04-24) says 1940. Neither is a Tier-1 source; the discrepancy is noted but not resolved here.
data/photographers.csvrow carries no marriage date. - Wikipedia gives six FoM plates from Bechuanaland; the MoMA Master Checklist in
data/photographs.csvshows nine Farbman plates total across multiple countries and sections (Belgian Congo ×1, Bechuanaland ×6, France ×2, USA ×1 — count verified by grep 2026-05-19). The Wikipedia claim of six Bechuanaland plates is consistent with the checklist Bechuanaland subset, but six understates his total FoM presence (nine plates). This is a Wikipedia framing issue, not a factual error about the Bechuanaland subset. - Britannica returned 404 for Nat Farbman 2026-05-19; no Britannica source created.
- ICP returned 404 for Nat Farbman slug 2026-05-19.