It was in the United States after the war, in a context of economic growth and a buoyant and expanding press, that Erwin Blumenfeld’s humorous, inventive and personal work (1897-1969) flowered. Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Collier’s, Cosmopolitan, Life, Look all of the big American fashion magazines hired him regularly over a fifteen year period, a photographer that Alexander Liberman admiringly called “ the most graphic and rooted in art”.
For this exhibition, the photographer’s sheet-films that, sixty years on, have deteriorated for the most part, have been restored by the laboratory of the musée Nicéphore Niépce. A digital restoration process was used In order to give the photographs their original colours. The exhibition includes over one hundred modern-day shots, original press cuttings and vintage black and white photographs, and will showcase the reality of this little- known workshop collection of fashion and advertising photography.
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Studio Blumenfeld – New York, 1941-1960
Musée Nicéphore Niépce
From June 16th to September 16th 2012
28 quai des messageries
71100 Chalon-sur-Saône – France
