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Erwin Blumenfeld (26 January 1897 – 4 July 1969) was an American photographer of German origin. He was born in Berlin, and in 1941 emigrated to the United States, where he soon became a successful and well-paid fashion photographer, working as a free-lancer for Harper's Bazaar, Life and American Vogue. His personal photographic work showed the influence of Dadaism and Surrealism; his two main areas of interest were death and women. He was expert in laboratory work, and experimented with photographic techniques such as distortion, multiple exposure, photo-montage and solarisation.[1][2]

Erwin Blumenfeld
Blumenfeld photographing Sophie Malgat, photographed by Gordon Parks, 1950
Born(1897-01-26)26 January 1897
Berlin, Germany
Died4 July 1969(1969-07-04) (aged 72)
Rome, Italy
Known forPhotography

History


Blumenfeld was born into a Jewish family[3] in Berlin on 26 January 1897. As a young man he worked in the clothes trade and wrote poetry.[4] In 1918 he went to Amsterdam, where he came into contact with Paul Citroen and Georg Grosz.[1] In 1933 he made a photomontage showing Hitler as a skull with a swastika on its forehead; this image was later used in Allied propaganda material in 1943.[4]

He married Lena Citroen, with whom he had three children, in 1921.[5]: 143  In 1922 he started a leather goods shop, which failed in 1935.[5]: 143 [4] He moved to Paris, where in 1936 he set up as a photographer[1] and did free-lance work for French Vogue.[4] After the outbreak of the Second World War he was placed in an internment camp; in 1941 he was able to emigrate to the United States.[1] There he soon became a successful and well-paid fashion photographer, and worked as a free-lancer for Harper's Bazaar, Life and American Vogue.[1]

Blumenfeld died in Rome on 4 July 1969.[1]


Publications


Blumenfeld started working on Blumenfeld: Meine 100 Besten Fotos in 1955; it was eventually published in 1979; an English translation, Blumenfeld: My One Hundred Best Photos, was published in New York in 1981. Another autobiographical work was published in German as Einbildungsroman by Eichborn Verlag [de] in 1998, and in English as Eye to I: The Autobiography of a Photographer by Thames and Hudson in 1999.[1]


References


  1. Erika Billeter (2003). Blumenfeld, Erwin. Grove Art Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T009382. (subscription required)
  2. Blumenfeld, Erwin. Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00021202. (subscription required)
  3. Todd Endelman (2010). Blumenfeld, Erwin. Broadening Jewish History. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. doi:10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T009382.
  4. Sarah James (2013). House of Dada. Frieze (9) (April–May 2013). Accessed February 2018.
  5. Anne Blecksmith (2006). Blumenfeld, Erwin. In: Lynne Warren (2006). Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography, volume 1. London; New York: Routledge. ISBN 9781135205430.

Further reading



На других языках

[de] Erwin Blumenfeld

Erwin Blumenfeld (geboren 26. Januar 1897 in Berlin; gestorben 4. Juli 1969 in Rom) war ein Fotograf deutsch-jüdischer Herkunft und in den 1940er und 1950er Jahren einer der weltweit gefragtesten Porträt- und Modefotografen.[1]
- [en] Erwin Blumenfeld

[ru] Блюменфельд, Эрвин

Эрвин Блюменфельд (нем. Erwin Blumenfeld) — немецкий фотограф XX века. Наряду с М. Мункачи, А. де Мейером, И.Пенном внес огромный вклад в развитие fashion-фотографии. Сотрудничал с такими изданиями как Vogue и Harper’s Bazaar.


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