Sunday, May 23, 2010

Edwin Blumenfeld, Eiffel Tower, Paris


Erwin Blumenfeld

Sur la tour Eiffel, Paris, 1938
On the Eiffel Tower, Paris, 1938

postmarked from Paris in 2010 with a France stamp

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Erwin Blumenfeld (1897 – 1969) was a famous American photographer of German origin.
In the 1930s, he published collages mocking Adolf Hitler. In 1936, he emigrated to Paris. With the German occupation, he was sent to a concentration camp in 1940 because he was Jewish. In 1941, he would escape to the USA.
In the 1940s and 1950s he became famous for his fashion photography, working for Vogue and Harper's Bazaar.

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