Erwin Blumenfeld

Amsterdam Paris New York

SC 22 x 28 cm., with three fold-out posters.
Deborah Bell 2005
EURO 35.00

"Photographic history is chock-full of people who were painters before they became photographers, but very few were in women's wear to begin with. Erwin Blumenfeld (1897-1969), a name to conjure with in fashion photography, worked in the garment trade, later owned a leather goods shop and was also an artist before he became a photographer. The camera must have come as something of a relief, for Blumenfeld had a ripe talent for photography, a minor one for painting and none whatsoever for handbags.
He opened his shop in Amsterdam after World War I and immediately did so badly at the business game that desperation drove him into the arms of art.
Then he found a camera and a darkroom that the previous tenant had left in his store, and as his business went down the drain persuaded a few women who came in to let him make portraits of them (and occasionally nudes) instead. New portraits went into his shop window each morning among the crocodile extravagances, a photographer was born." Vicki Goldberg, New York Times -

Andere Titel von Erwin Blumenfeld:

Einbildungsroman
a fetish for beauty
Erwin Blumenfeld: His Dutch Years
EYE to I

Ausstellungen von/mit Erwin Blumenfeld

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27.06. - 01.09.2009: Women - Fotografische Arbeiten der 1920er bis 1970er Jahre , Galerie Priska Pasquer, Köln, D
01.05. - 15.07.2009: Selected Works , Kicken Berlin, Berlin, D
03.03. - 10.05.2009: Extreme Beauty in Vogue - La bellezza interpretata dai piu' grandi maestri della fotografia dagli anni Trenta a oggi , Palazzo della Ragione, Milano, I
27.02. - 01.06.2009: DADA-MONTAGEN - IN WAHRHEIT WAR ICH NUR BERLINER , Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, D
12.02. - 28.02.2009: ektas extra , ParisGlobe, Paris, F