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Model | Ruth Knowles |
Photographer | Erwin Blumenfeld |
Copyright | The Estate of Erwin Blumenfeld, collection Henry et Yorick Blumenfeld |
Erwin Blumenfeld (* 26 January 1897, Berlin; † 4. July 1969, Rome) was a photographer of German Jewish descent whose fashion career launch in the 1940s and 1950s progressed from initial failure to one of the world’s most sought after portrait and fashion photographers.
He was almost 40 years old when he first started to pursue a photography career in Paris, 1936. By 1939 he had already secured a contract with HARPERS BAZAAR on his first...