Erwin Blumenfeld
Erwin Blumenfeld was a photographer and artist born in Germany. He was best known for his fashion photography published in Vogue and Harpers Bazaar in the 1940s and 1950s. In addition to fashion photography, he produced an extensive body of celebrity portraiture, fineart photography , drawings, and Dada collages. He made photographs while a resident of Germany, the Netherlands, France, and the United States, and has been called one of the most innovative and influential photographers of the 20th century.
Blumenfeld was bornJanuary 1897 in Berlin. He was of Jewish descent. His parents were Albert Blumenfeld and Emma Blumenfeld, ne Cohn. He had a younger brother Heinz and an older sister Annie.
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