Erich Salomon, father of candid photography
Sep 13, 2015 14:32:58 #
An interesting biography, below, and a link to some of his photos following that. I'd never heard of Salomon.
Approved biography for Erich Salomon
Courtesy of the Victoria & Albert Museum (London, UK)
Erich Salomon was a key figure in the development of modern photojournalism. He graduated in law in 1913 before being called up for military service. When war ended he returned to Berlin and in 1925 he got a job in the publicity department of the publishers Ullstein. He bought a large-format press camera before acquiring a more compact Ermanox in 1927.
After publishing his first press photograph in the Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung in 1928, Salomon set himself up as a freelance photographer and journalist. He travelled widely in Europe and America and soon became known for his off-guard pictures of politicians, sporting events and celebrities. Salomon went to such great lengths to disguise his camera that the editor of Graphic coined the term candid photography to describe his clandestine technique. In 1931 he published a book of his work entitled Famous Contemporaries in Unguarded Moments and in 1935 held an exhibition at the Royal Photographic Society in London. However, the rise of the Nazis meant that from 1933 Salomon, who was Jewish, was no longer able to publish in German magazines, so he moved with his family to The Hague in the Netherlands. He was discovered by the Nazi authorities in 1944 and, with his wife and son Dirk, deported to Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia and then on to Auschwitz.
This biography is courtesy and copyright of the Victoria & Albert Museum and is included here with permission.
A LINK TO SOME OF SALOMON'S PHOTOS:
http://ndmagazine.net/photographer/erich-salomon/
(You can Google around for many other relevant sites.)
Approved biography for Erich Salomon
Courtesy of the Victoria & Albert Museum (London, UK)
Erich Salomon was a key figure in the development of modern photojournalism. He graduated in law in 1913 before being called up for military service. When war ended he returned to Berlin and in 1925 he got a job in the publicity department of the publishers Ullstein. He bought a large-format press camera before acquiring a more compact Ermanox in 1927.
After publishing his first press photograph in the Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung in 1928, Salomon set himself up as a freelance photographer and journalist. He travelled widely in Europe and America and soon became known for his off-guard pictures of politicians, sporting events and celebrities. Salomon went to such great lengths to disguise his camera that the editor of Graphic coined the term candid photography to describe his clandestine technique. In 1931 he published a book of his work entitled Famous Contemporaries in Unguarded Moments and in 1935 held an exhibition at the Royal Photographic Society in London. However, the rise of the Nazis meant that from 1933 Salomon, who was Jewish, was no longer able to publish in German magazines, so he moved with his family to The Hague in the Netherlands. He was discovered by the Nazi authorities in 1944 and, with his wife and son Dirk, deported to Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia and then on to Auschwitz.
This biography is courtesy and copyright of the Victoria & Albert Museum and is included here with permission.
A LINK TO SOME OF SALOMON'S PHOTOS:
http://ndmagazine.net/photographer/erich-salomon/
(You can Google around for many other relevant sites.)
Sep 13, 2015 14:41:19 #
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