Kurt Gottlieb Lubinski (October 19, 1899 – August 15, 1955) was a German and Dutch author and

photojournalist Photojournalism is journalism that uses images to tell a news story. It usually only refers to still images, but can also refer to video used in broadcast journalism. Photojournalism is distinguished from other close branches of photography (suc ...

who traveled through remote areas of the former Soviet Union and Ethiopia.

Life and work

Lubinski was born in Berlin. He worked for the

Ullstein Verlag The ''Ullstein Verlag'' was founded by Leopold Ullstein in 1877 at Berlin and is one of the largest publishing companies of Germany. It published newspapers like '' B.Z.'' and '' Berliner Morgenpost'' and books through its subsidiaries ''Ullstei ...

in the late 1920s, emigrated to The Netherlands in 1933 and to the United States in 1943. He worked for Dutch illustrated weeklies such as ''Het Leven'' where he was an early photojournalist who traveled through the remote areas of the former Soviet Union and

Ethiopia Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia to the east, Ken ...

. His unusual subject matter—people from rarely-photographed cultures, lions riding in sidecars, people behaving oddly in public places—gave him the reputation of being "among the first to acquaint the general public with images of strange cultures and exotic peoples." He died on August 15, 1955, in New York.

Personal life

He was married to photographer Margot R. Lewin-Richter in 1927 and later (in 1950) divorced. They had one son, Peter, in 1931. Margot and Peter changed their last name to Lucas when they emigrated to the US.

Publications

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References

Dutch photojournalists 1899 births 1969 deaths {{Photographer-stub