Bright Lights & Dark Rooms: Old Brookville Press

Ira Lerner began his photographic career at age nineteen, as the youngest photographer ever hired by National Geographic magazine. While working there, Lerner received two national awards from the prestigious National Press Photographers Association for Best Portrait of the Year.He then went on to become one of the most successful and highest-paid fashion and advertising photographers in America. His fashion and beauty ads have graced the pages of hundreds of publications, including Vogue, Elle, Harper's Bazaar, Marie Claire, InStyle, Mademoiselle, and Women's Wear Daily.His work is represented in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress, the Louvre, the Brooklyn Museum and the Museum of the City of New York.