Lisl Steiner, an Austrian-born American photographer, photojournalist, and documentary filmmaker, died June 7 in Pound Ridge, NY. She was 95.

Steiner was born to a Jewish family in Vienna in 1927. Shortly after Adolf Hitler annexed Austria, she and her family emigrated to Buenos Aires. In her 20s, she began working in documentary film, and helped produce some 50 documentaries for the foreign ministry of Argentina. Later, she went to work for a Brazilian magazine, undertaking photo assignments around Latin America. In 1960, she moved to New York and began freelancing for Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, Life and the Associated Press. She photographed Fidel Castro during a famous visit to the United Nations. Other famous subjects included Henri Cartier-Bresson, U.S. President Jimmy Carter, and the state funeral of John F. Kennedy.

In 2000, the Leica Gallery in Manhattan held a retrospective of her work.