Born in 1904, Roger Schall was one of the most renowned photographers of the 1930’s and ‘40’s. He worked in all photographic disciplines from fashion, portraits, nudes, still lives and especially reporting.
He began working with his father, a portrait photographer, in 1918. Ten years later, he would be one of the first reporters to work with a Leica or a Rolleiflex and in 1932 his first stories would run in Paris Magazine and Art and Medecine. In 1939, he closed the studio-agency he had opened with his brother. Demobilized, Roger Schall returned to German occupied Paris, then liberated, an on location picture story until 1945. He then continued working in fashion, doing commercial and publicity work instead of news.
From 1970 until his death, in 1995, Roger Schall would manage his archives.
l’Élégance et l’Automobile
Until March 11 2011
Opening February 4, 5, 2011 at 6,30 pm
AMTARES Galerie
29, rue Lamarck
75018 Paris
