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Erwin Blumenfeld
Photographer (1897–1969)
Erwin Blumenfeld (26 January 1897 – 4 July 1969) was an American photographer of German origin.
Erwin blumenfeld photography
He was born in Berlin, and in 1941 emigrated to the United States, where he soon became a successful and well-paid fashion photographer, working as a free-lancer for Harper's Bazaar, Life and American Vogue.
His personal photographic work showed the influence of Dadaism and Surrealism; his two main areas of interest were death and women. He was expert in laboratory work, and experimented with photographic techniques such as distortion, multiple exposure, photo-montage and solarisation.[1][2]
History
Blumenfeld was born in Berlin on 26 January 1897,[1] to atheistic Jewish free-thinker parents.[3]: 34 As a young man he worked in the clothes trade and wrote poetry.[4] In 1918 he went to Amsterdam, where he came into contact with Paul Citroen and Georg Grosz.[1&#