| Dates: | 1902 - 1985 | | Born: | Germany, Leipzig | | Active: | Germany |
Studied philosophy and ethnology at universities in Leipzig and Munich before taking to photography. Worked as a reporter for ‘Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung‘ from 1927. Remained a photojournalist most of his life with newspapers and German television.Preparing biographies
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| Getty Research, Los Angeles, USA has an ULAN (Union List of Artists Names Online) entry for this photographer. This is useful for checking names and they frequently provide a brief biography. | | Go to website |
The following books are useful starting points to obtain brief biographies but they are not substitutes for the monographs on individual photographers. |
• Beaton, Cecil & Buckland, Gail 1975 The Magic Eye: The Genius of Photography from 1839 to the Present Day (Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown & Company) p.181 [Useful short biographies with personal asides and one or more example images.]
• Evans, Martin Marix (Executive ed.) 1995 Contemporary Photographers [Third Edition] (St. James Press - An International Thomson Publishing Company) [Expensive reference work but highly informative.]
• Fernandez, Horacio (ed.) 2000 Fotografía Pública: Photography in Print 1919-1939 (Aldeasa) p.256 [This Spanish exhibition catalogue is one of the best sources for illustrations of photomontage and book design for the period between the two World Wars.]
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