Ida Lansky

Ida G. Lansky (née Leranbaum 1910 – November 27, 1997) was a Canadian-born American photographer. She was most active between 1954 and 1960, when she stopped publicly exhibiting her work and chose to study library science. Lansky is known as an important pioneer of Modernist photography in Texas, known as Texas Bauhaus.

Biography Lansky was born in Toronto, Ontario in 1910. She received a BS in public health nursing from New York University in 1942. Her photography career took place roughly at the same time she studied visual art at Texas Woman's University from 1954 to 1959.

A major influence on Lansky was photographer, Carlotta Corpron, who worked in the Bauhaus style and who taught at Texas Woman's University. Lansky was one of her students and was introduced to the avant-garde, Bauhaus ideal by Corpron.

Lansky's earlier photographs were considered "regular," though they show an "interest in reflection, distortion and abstraction." Her "experiments" were also considered artistic: with galleries in Dallas, Texas and San Francisco inviting her to show her work. In 2015, Lansky's photographic innovations were featured in an exhibition titled Experimental Photography, held at Photographs Do Not Bend (PDNB) Gallery. Lansky's estate is represented by the PDNB Gallery in Dallas. and the Amon Carter Museum of American Art.

Lansky's work was included in the 2021 exhibition Women in Abstraction at the Centre Pompidou.