Joe Alper

Photographer, especially of jazz and folk artists from 1958 until his death in 1968 at age 43. Husband of Jackie Alper and father of George Alper. Just before his death, Alper established a photo department at SUNY, the University of Albany. He also taught photography at the Nova Gallery in Sarasota Springs, at YWCA in Schenectady, at the Union College, and had been an art lecturer and consultant at State University in Albany.