David Attie was a prominent American commercial and fine art photographer who was widely published in magazines and books from the late 1950s until his passing in the 1980s. He was one of the last great proteges of legendary photography teacher and art director Alexey Brodovitch. Attie worked in a wide range of styles, illustrating everything from novels to magazine and album covers to the work of Truman Capote, and taking portraits of Lorraine Hansberry, Ralph Ellison, and many other notables. But he was best known in his lifetime for photo montages—highly inventive, pre-Photoshop collages that he made by combining negatives in the darkroom. His work received new attention with the 2015 publication of his Capote collaboration "Brooklyn: A Personal Memoir, With The Lost Photographs of David Attie," and a 2016-2018 exhibit at the Brooklyn Historical Society. One contemporary critic has written that even decades later, "his explorations of photomontage remain durably inspired, innovative, and visually dynamic."