Erwin Blumenfeld Research Paper

Erwin Blumenfeld

Erwin Blumenfeld was a Berlin born American photographer. He was born in Berlin on January 26 1897 to Emma Cohn and Albert Blumenfeld. In 1907, his mother Emma bought him camera as a gift. Erwin then began to experiments enthusiastically with a chemistry set and a magic lantern. In 1911 he took interest Photographic self-portraits using a mirror to obtain simultaneous frontal and profile views

Blumenfeld moved to Holland late 1918. Blumenfeld married Lena Citroen in Holland in 1921 and had three children there: Lisette, Henry Alexander and Frank Yorick. In 1923 he opens the ‘Fox Leather Company’, specialising in handbags in Amsterdam. A few years later he discovers a darkroom and begins to photograph female customers.
Blumenfeld was talented in many areas, including drawing, painting, writing, and constructing Dadaistic collages. In the 1930s, he published collages mocking Adolf Hitler because of his experiences during the holocaust. In 1936, he emigrated to Paris. With the German occupation, he was interned in a concentration camp in 1940 because he was Jewish. In 1941, he could escape to the USA. He then became a US citizen in
There, his extraordinary visual imagination, sophisticated understanding of Avant-Garde aesthetics, experimental approach to chemical photography and importantly, his commercial pragmatism were embraced by the most influential art directors and wealthy advertising clients, making Blumenfeld, the failed leather goods man, to be the highest- paid photographer in the world. So in the end, Erwin Blumenfeld put all three of his careers together; women's wear, art and