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Sylvia Plachy
Hungarian-American photographer
Sylvia Plachy (born 24 May )[1] is a Hungarian-Americanphotographer. Plachy's work has been featured in many New York City magazines and newspapers and she "was an influential staff photographer for The Village Voice."[2]
Biography
Plachy was born in Budapest, Hungary. Her Czech Jewish mother was in hiding in fear of Nazi persecution during World War II.[3] Her father was a Hungarian Roman Catholic of aristocratic descent[citation needed] and she was raised in his faith.
Plachy's family moved to New York City in , two years after the Hungarian revolution, after crossing into Austria for safety, hidden in a horse-drawn cart.[2] She started photographing in "with an emphasis of recording the visual character of the city along with its diverse occupants".[4] Plachy studied photography at the Pratt Institute in New York City, receiving her B.F.A. in [5] T Sylvia plachy photographer!