(b. New York City, NY, 1934 – 2005)
Born in Brooklyn, Deiter began taking photographs of the city at a very early age. Surrounded by art and fashion during his teens, he was often in the company of famous New York fashion and commercial photographers. Soon he regularly had fashion spreads in Women’s Wear Daily and his work was on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar magazine. He was asked to teach at the famous Pratt Institute. He also photographed the jazz scene in New York and shot the first two album covers for Frank Zappa. In the 1960s, Deiter became involved in the anti-Vietnam war movement where he documented numerous protests. In 1968, he moved to Canada, where he settled in Montréal and continued to work as a photojournalist featured in publications such as Time Magazine and Life.
