Lida Moser is one of the most respected American photographers with a career spanning 60 years and encompassing work in photojournalism, portraiture, theatre, special effects, architectural photography and a zeal to explore all fields of the medium. Her photography has sold as high as $4,000 at Christie's auctions and continues to be collected by both museums and private collectors.

Moser's career started as an assistant in 1947 in Berenice Abbott's studio. She then worked for Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Look and many other magazines. She has also authored and been part of many books and publications on and about photography in the New York Times, New York Sunday Times, Amphoto Guide to Special Effects, Fun in Photography, Career Photography, Women See Men, Women of Vision, This Was the Photo League, and others. She also wrote a series of "Camera View" articles on photography for The New York Times between 1974-81.

In 1950 Vogue (and subsequently Look) assigned Lida Moser to carry out an illustrated report on Canada, from one ocean to another. When she arrived at the Windsor station in Montreal, in June of that same year, she met by chance, Paul Gouin, then a Cultural Advisor to Duplessis government. This chance meeting leads the young woman to change her all-Canada assignment for one centered around Quebec.

Armed with her camera and guided by the life-long work done by Father Felix-Antoine Savard, the folklorist Luc Lacourci�re and accompanied by Paul Gouin, Lida Moser then discovers and photographs a traditional Quebec, which was still little touched by modern civilization and the coming urbanization of the region.

Her photographs of the Quebec region have been declared to be of national and cultural importance and have been acquired by Les Archives Nationales de Quebec. In 1978, there was a major exhibition of her work at the McCord Museum in Montreal. For the next two years the museum toured the exhibition throughout Canada and the United States. In the summer of 2005, two more major exhibitions were held in Quebec City and Perce.

In 1949 Lida Moser photographed the leading Scottish cultural figures including play writers, musicians, artists, poets and architects. In 1994, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery had a major exhibition of those photographs and subsequently, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery acquired the entire collection of over 200 photographs.

In 2004 seven portraits by Lida Moser of leading British cultural icons were included in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: The Life Story of Britain, a sixty volume anthology including 54,000 biographies, published by Oxford University Press.

Between 1954 - 1974, Lida Moser photographed American artist John Koch, a leading realist painter of the times, whose work is now in the permanent collection of many museums worldwide. In 2001, The New York Historical Society exhibited over 30 of his paintings, and included many of Moser's photographs of Koch in the exhibition.

Her work has been exhibited in many museums worldwide and is in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London, the National Archives, Ottawa, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Scotland, the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, the Library of Congress, Les Archives Nationales du Quebec, the Corcoran Gallery, the Phillips Collection, Washington, DC and many others. Moser was a member of the Photo League and the New York School.

The Photo League was the seminal birth of American documentary photography. It was a group that was at times school, an association, and even a social photography club. Founded in 1936 and disbanded in 1951, the Photo League promoted photojournalism with an aesthetic consciousness and a social conscience that reaches photojournalism and street photography to this day.