Trained to the avant-garde movements during the European interwar, Erwin Blumenfeld (1897-1969) built the majority of his career in the United States, where he moved in 1941. In the lively atmosphere of a booming press, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Collier’s, Cosmopolitan, Life, Kaleidoscope, Photography, all the major American fashion magazines called the photographer. Three years after arriving in New York, Blumenfeld became the most famous photographer in his profession and also the highest-paid. Torn between the demands of these assignments and his own artistic aspirations, Blumenfeld, nevertheless, succeeded in putting his own immediately recognizable style first: play of light and color, manipulation of the medium, repetition of pattern, daring compositions… Ultimately, a style extremely indebted to his European roots.
Studio Blumenfeld New York 1941-1960, l’art en contrebande
Exhibition as part of Mois de la Photo du Grand Paris (Photo Month of Greater Paris)
From March 3 through June 4, 2017
Les Dock, Cité de la Mode et du Design
Entrance of La Cité
34, quai d’Austerlitz
75013 Paris
France
