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Maria Eisner
Maria Eisner (Maria Eisner Lehfeldt; February 8, 1909, in Milan, Italy – March 8, 1991, in New York, New York) was an Italian-American photographer, photo editor and photo agent. She was one of the founders of Magnum Photos, and the first head of its Paris office. Origin Maria Eisner (born Marie-Jeanne Eisner) was the daughter of Emma (née Lederer) and Alfred Eisner, a merchant. Her Jewish parents had emigrated to the USA in 1886, were naturalised 1891, lived in Nebraska, then briefly in Milan in 1896 where Maria was born in 1909. Early career Eisner studied in Germany and worked for the illustrated press from the age of twenty, was trained by Simon Guttmann, head of the very successful Berlin-based agency ''Dephot'' (Deutsche Photo Dienst), and her imagery attracted clients including Berlin publisher Martin Hürlimann. France and Alliance Photo agency From the 1920s, photographers from Germany, but also Hungary, took refuge in Paris, at the same time as the appe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Henri Cartier-Bresson (; 22 August 1908 – 3 August 2004) was a French artist and Humanist photography, humanist photographer considered a master of candid photography, and an early user of 135 film, 35mm film. He pioneered the genre of street photography, and viewed photography as capturing a ''decisive moment.'' Cartier-Bresson was one of the founding members of Magnum Photos in 1947. In the 1970s he largely discontinued his photographic work, instead opting to paint. Early life Henri Cartier-Bresson was born in Chanteloup-en-Brie, Seine-et-Marne, France. His father was a wealthy textile manufacturer, whose Cartier-Bresson thread was a staple of French sewing kits. His mother's family were cotton merchants and landowners from Normandy, where Henri spent part of his childhood. His mother was descended from Charlotte Corday. The Cartier-Bresson family lived in a bourgeois neighborhood in Paris, Rue de Lisbonne, near Le Pont de l'Europe, Place de l'Europe and Parc Monceau. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritz Goro
Fritz Goro (originally Fritz Gorodiski; born 1901 in Bremen, (Germany) – died 14 December 1986 in Chappaqua, New York) was the inventor of macrophotography and a photographer specializing in science, published in the ''Life'' magazine and ''Scientific American.'' He started his career as a photojournalist in Germany before fleeing from the Nazis in 1933, arriving in the USA in 1936. Goro documented many major scientific breakthroughs, including pictures of the first plutonium ever produced, the first atomic-bomb test, the advent of microelectronics, the ruby laser, as well as photos of Ali Javan timing the frequency of light at M.I.T. laboratory. Goro was described by the evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould Stephen Jay Gould ( ; September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002) was an American Paleontology, paleontologist, Evolutionary biology, evolutionary biologist, and History of science, historian of science. He was one of the most influential and widely re ... as "the most in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beaumont Newhall
Beaumont Newhall (June 22, 1908 – February 26, 1993) was an American curator, art historian, writer, photographer, and the second director of the George Eastman Museum. His book, ''The History of Photography'', remains one of the most significant accounts in the field and has become a classic photographic history textbook. Newhall was the recipient of numerous awards and accolades for his accomplishments in the study of photographic history. Early life and education Beaumont Newhall was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, United States, on June 22, 1908. He was the son of Herbert W. Newhall and Alice Lillia Davis. Some of his earliest childhood memories revolved around photography. He recalled watching his mother in her darkroom as she developed her own glass plate images, as well as dipping his fingers into the chemical trays to see what they tasted like. Although Newhall wanted to study film and photography in college, the subjects were not taught as separate disciplines when he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Star (photo Agency)
Black Star, also known as Black Star Publishing Company, was started by refugees from Germany who had established photographic agencies there in the 1930s. Today it is a New York City-based photographic agency with offices in London and in White Plains, New York. It is known for photojournalism, corporate assignment photography and stock photography services worldwide. It is noted for its contribution to the history of photojournalism in the United States. It was the first privately owned picture agency in the United States, and introduced numerous new techniques in photography and illustrated journalism. The agency was closely identified with Henry Luce's magazines ''Life (magazine), Life'' and ''Time (magazine), Time''. History Black Star was formed in December 1935. The three founders were Kurt Szafranski, Kurt Safranski, Ernest Mayer and Kurt Kornfeld. In 1964, the company was sold to Howard Chapnick. The three founders; Safranski, Mayer and Kornfeld were German Jews who fle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War () was a military conflict fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republican faction (Spanish Civil War), Republicans and the Nationalist faction (Spanish Civil War), Nationalists. Republicans were loyal to the Left-wing politics, left-leaning Popular Front (Spain), Popular Front government of the Second Spanish Republic. The opposing Nationalists were an alliance of Falangism, Falangists, monarchists, conservatives, and Traditionalism (Spain), traditionalists led by a National Defense Junta, military junta among whom General Francisco Franco quickly achieved a preponderant role. Due to the international Interwar period#Great Depression, political climate at the time, the war was variously viewed as class struggle, a War of religion, religious struggle, or a struggle between dictatorship and Republicanism, republican democracy, between revolution and counterrevolution, or between fascism and communism. The Nationalists won the war, which ended in early 1939, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Falling Soldier
''The Falling Soldier'' (full title: ''Loyalist Militiaman at the Moment of Death, Cerro Muriano, September 5, 1936'') is a black-and-white photograph by Robert Capa, claimed to have been taken on Saturday, September 5, 1936. It was said to depict the death of a Republican soldier from the Libertarian Youth (FIJL) during the Battle of Cerro Muriano of the Spanish Civil War. The soldier in the photograph was later claimed to be the anarchist militiaman Federico Borrell García. The photo appears to capture a soldier at the very moment of his death. He is shown collapsing backward after being fatally shot in the head, with his rifle slipping out of his right hand. The soldier is dressed in civilian clothing, but is wearing a leather cartridge belt. Following its publication, the photograph was acclaimed as one of the greatest ever taken, but since the 1970s, there have been significant doubts about its authenticity due to its location, the identity of its subject, and the discove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yōnosuke Natori
was a Japanese photographer and editor. Biography Born in Tokyo on 3 September 1910, Natori studied at Keio University, Keio normal school but upon graduation went with his mother to Munich, where he studied at a school of arts and crafts. In 1930 he married while in Germany he married Erna Mecklenburg, a craft designer whom he would collaborate with throughout his career. He became interested in photography and in 1931 obtained a Leica Camera, Leica. After selling his wife Erna's photograph of the aftermath of the Munich Stadtmuseum burning to a local newspaper, in 1931 he got a contract to work as a photographer for Ullstein-Verlag, Ullstein, which in 1933 sent him to Manchuria to cover the Mukden Incident. After immediate hostilities there had ended, Natori went to Japan and set up the first Nihon Kōbō. When that collapsed he set up the second, working on its magazine ''Nippon (magazine), Nippon.'' He went to Berlin for the 1936 Summer Olympics, 1936 Olympics, and thence we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerda Taro
Gerta Pohorylle (1 August 1910 – 26 July 1937), known professionally as Gerda Taro, was a German War photography, war photographer active during the Spanish Civil War. She is regarded as the first female Photojournalism, photojournalist to have died while covering the frontline in a war. Taro was the companion and professional partner of photographer Robert Capa, who, like her, was Jewish. The name "Robert Capa" was originally an alias that Taro and Capa (born Endre Friedmann) shared, an invention meant to mitigate the increasing political intolerance in Europe and to attract the lucrative American market. Therefore, a significant amount of what is credited as Robert Capa's early work was actually created by Taro. Early life Gerta Pohorylle was born on 1 August 1910 in Stuttgart, German Empire, Germany, to Gisela Boral and Heinrich Pohorylle, a middle-class Jewish family that had recently emigrated from Galicia (Eastern Europe), East Galicia. She studied at ''Queen Charlotte H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juliette Lasserre
Juliette Lasserre, (née Ilse Juliette Ziegert; 14 April 1907 – 9 July 2007), was a Swiss-German photographer and literary translator. Youth Juliette Lasserre was born on 14 April 1907 in Plainpalais, Geneva. Her parents were Maximilian Ziegert (1863–1913) and Ilse Grund (1880–1928). She was the youngest of their four children. Her three brothers were Hellmuth Ziegert (1899–1949), Erich Ziegert (1900–1978) and Hans-Peter Ziegert (1902–1977). Her father died prematurely in 1913. In the mid-1920s she began training as a kindergarten teacher. She then trained as a photographer at the Lette-Haus in Berlin and also worked for Karlheinz Martin at the Volksbühne in Berlin. Professional career About a year after her mother's suicide, Juliette Lasserre moved to Paris in 1929 to join her aunt Helen Hessel and her uncle Franz Hessel, who were both living in a ménage à trois with Henri-Pierre Roché. She found work as an assistant to Germaine Krull and married the Swiss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denise Bellon
Denise Bellon (20 September 1902 – 31 October 1999) was a French photographer associated with the Surrealism, Surrealist movement. Life She was born Denise Hulmann in Paris and studied psychology at the University of Paris, Sorbonne. She first married Jacques Bellon although the couple later divorced. Bellon began work as a photographer with Pierre Boucher. From 1934 to 1940, she was part of the team of photographers at the Alliance-Photo agency founded by Maria Eisner. In 1940, she married Armand Labin, fr. He founded the newspaper ''Midi Libre''; she worked for the paper as a photographer. During the Nazi occupation of France, from 1940, she lived in Lyon. From 1946 until 1956 when she returned to Paris, Bellon lived in Montpellier. She was photographer for the Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme, International Exhibitions of Surrealism held in 1938, 1947, 1959 and 1965. Bellon also photographed various Surrealist artists and their works, including Joan Miró, Yves Tan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
