Background
Erwin Blumenfeld was born on January 26, 1897 in Berlin, Germany.
(The book autobiographical work was published in German as...)
The book autobiographical work was published in German as Einbildungsroman by Eichborn Verlag in 1998, and in English as Eye to I: The Autobiography of a Photographer by Thames and Hudson in 1999.
https://www.amazon.com/Eye-Autobiography-Photographer-Erwin-Blumenfeld/dp/050001907X/?tag=2022091-20
1999
(Blumenrfeld started working on Blumenfeld: Meine 100 Best...)
Blumenrfeld 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.
https://www.amazon.com/Blumenfeld-One-Hundred-Best-Photos/dp/0847803406/?tag=2022091-20
Erwin Blumenfeld was born on January 26, 1897 in Berlin, Germany.
As a young man he worked in the clothes trade and wrote poetry. In 1918 he went to Amsterdam, where he came into contact with Paul Citroen and Georg Grosz. 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.
In 1922 he started a leather goods shop, which failed in 1935. He moved to Paris, where in 1936 he set up as a photographer and did free-lance work for French Vogue.
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. 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.
Erwin Blumenfeld died in Rome on 4 July 1969.
(Blumenrfeld started working on Blumenfeld: Meine 100 Best...)
(The book autobiographical work was published in German as...)
1999More than once Erwin Blumenfeld admitted that he has two weaknesses in his life - photography and women. But what a charisma this man had. Women could not resist his charm, and the novels of the master had no number.
Physical Characteristics: His appearance did not differ, rather, quite the contrary: thin lips, a huge nose.
Erwin Blumenfeld married Lena Citroen, with whom he had three children, in 1921.