Erwin Blumenfeld: Exhibition about the iconic photographer in Paris

Erwin Blumenfeld he is best known as the highest paid fashion photographer of Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar in the middle of the last century. The Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme in Paris shows him in a different light: it invites us to follow, through 180 photographs, the “suffering and trials” of this Jew from Berlin, focusing on the years 1930-1950 .

Blumenfeld explored the form, using mirrors, sandblasted glass and optical devices. Inspired by Dadaists, Surrealists and other pioneers, he reinvented fashion through innovative photography to elevate his models, such as in his series of photographs of the Eiffel Tower.

The exhibition presents his unpublished reportage focusing on a gypsy family in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer (1928-1930); it shows the wanderings of Roma who would be displaced by the Nazis. Here are his caricatures and photomontages that herald the rise of Nazism. As soon as Hitler came to power, he had his portrait painted with a skull on top. In the same year he sent his gallerist, Carl van Lier, a self-portrait he had made in Amsterdam, with the words “Warm greetings from the thought concentration camp”.

In 1941, at the age of five, she managed to escape to New York and was soon in contact with Harper’s Bazaar, with which she had signed a contract shortly before the outbreak of war. With the advent of Kodachrome, he flourished and became the highest paid photographer of his time.

The exhibition “Les Tribulations de Erwin Blumenfeld 1930-1950” ends March 5th.

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