Lucien Aigner

September 13, 1901

Ersekujvâr, Hungary

Since 1972 Aigner has been making and exhibiting photos from his archives and lecturing about them. From 1954 to 1976 he operated a portrait and commercial studio in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Previously he worked as a Paris correspondent and Bureau Chief of Az Est (Hungary) and as a Paris correspondent of the London General Press. He was also a contributor to L’Illustration and Miroir du Monde (Paris), the Picture Post (London) and Muenchner Illustrierte (Germany), among others, during the years 1925 - 39. He was also a contributor to Look, The New York Times, Newsweek, Time Magazine, etc. (1939-48), and was the producer-director of foreign language broadcasts at Voice of America (1946-53). Aigner has specialized in photojournalism, with emphasis on portraits of and essays on world leaders and celebrities, and has also been involved in pictorial chronicling of everyday life in Europe and, later, in the United States.

Lucien L. Aigner

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Background

Lucien L. Aigner was born in 1901 Ersekujvâr, Hungary (now Novè Zâmky, Czechoslovakia).

Education

He completed a law degree at the University of Budapest in 1924. In 1967 he attended the Winona School of Photography in Indiana.

Career

Since 1972 Aigner has been making and exhibiting photos from his archives and lecturing about them. From 1954 to 1976 he operated a portrait and commercial studio in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Previously he worked as a Paris correspondent and Bureau Chief of Az Est (Hungary) and as a Paris correspondent of the London General Press. He was also a contributor to L’Illustration and Miroir du Monde (Paris), the Picture Post (London) and Muenchner Illustrierte (Germany), among others, during the years 1925 - 39. He was also a contributor to Look, The New York Times, Newsweek, Time Magazine, etc. (1939-48), and was the producer-director of foreign language broadcasts at Voice of America (1946-53).

Aigner has specialized in photojournalism, with emphasis on portraits of and essays on world leaders and celebrities, and has also been involved in pictorial chronicling of everyday life in Europe and, later, in the United States.

Achievements

PUBLICATIONS Monographs: Lucien Aigner, autobio., 1979; Between Two Worlds, 1975 (Paris). Books: Pictures with Meaning, 1961; What Prayer Can Do, 1954; Windows of Heaven, Glenn Clark, 1954; Are We to Disarml, 1932 (Geneva). Periodicals: 35mm Photography, 1978; The Professional Photographer, 1973.

COLLECTIONS IMP/GEH, Rochester; L/C, Wash. D.C.; MOMA, NYC; Smithsonian Inst., Wash. D.C.. Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; Landesbildstelle, Hamburg, Germany; Musée Nicéphore Niepce, Chalon-sur-Saône, France,- Natl. Mus. of Photog., Helsinki, Finland.

Membership

Aigner has been a member of the Great Barrington Rotary Club in Massachusetts since 1956, serving for six years as chairman of the International Student Exchange Committee. He is also a life member and Master of Photography of the Professional Photographers of America.

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1924

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1954

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1954 - 1976

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Art Director Award, United States

Leica Award, United States