- Martha Holmes was born on February 7, 1923 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. She was married to Arthur Waxman. She died on September 19, 2006 in New York City, New York, USA.
- SpouseArthur Waxman(March 30, 1952 - 1998) (his death, 2 children)
- Was a former Life magazine photographer known for her signature pictures of famous people including painter Jackson Pollock and film stars Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.
- In 1949, she photographed artist Jackson Pollock at work with a cigarette dangling from his mouth. The image was later used on a US postage stamp, with the cigarette air-brushed out. In 1947, she showed Bogart and Bacall standing by a table at a US House of Representatives Un-American Activities Committee hearing on Communists in Hollywood.
- She photographed CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow driving a tractor on his farm, and Eleanor Roosevelt walking in the woods with a group of orphans. Other famous subjects were Groucho Marx, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, and United Mine Workers president John L. Lewis.
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