Edwin C. Hirschoff was a leader in the camera club movement that thrived in Minneapolis during the 1930s and 1940s. A creative photographer, entrepreneur, and inventor, he had a successful career in public relations before founding Art-O-Graph, a Minneapolis business that has prospered for more than half a century. He was born in Zurick, Switzerland, in 1905, and lived in Minneapolis for almost ninety years before his death in 2002.