Blumenfeld, Erwin Berlin, 1897 Rome, 1969 German-born photographer, most well known for his fashion and advertising images. A former ambulance driver and leather goods trader, bankruptcy forced him to start taking his photography hobby seriously. His most remembered images are associated with his dynamic style of fashion photography for magazines like Vogue and Harpers Bazaar.
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An accessible, collectable book on Erwin Blumenfeld. Blumenfeld (18971969) is one of the 20th centurys most influential fashion photographers. Born in 1897 in Berlin, Germany, Blumenfeld eventually made his way to New York City where he would cast an indelible influence on American fashion photography in the 1940s and 50s....more
In the 1940s Erwin Blumenfeld (1897-1969) became one of America's top fashion photographers, and eventually the highest paid photographer in the world. His work for Vogue and Harper's Bazaar remains influential. But before he arrived in New York--fleeing Nazi-occupied Paris via Morocco in 1941--he spent his twenties in Amsterdam. This...more
Erwin Blumenfeld shot to fame in 1938 with the publication of 14 sensational nude photographs in Verve magazine. The commission led to a career as one of the most gifted and sought-after fashion photographers of the '40s and '50s. However, throughout his career Blumenfeld remained fascinated with the naked female...more
Although Erwin Blumenfeld would no doubt have emphatically denied it, his autobiography might be seen as an example of the trajectory of an artistic life brutally fashioned by the vicissitudes of 20th-century European history. Born in 1896 into a bourgeois Berlin Jewish family, he served in the German army during...more