Black and white photograph of a man in white tie, wearing dark-rimmed glasses and looking through his camera, which is held up to eye level on a tripod.
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| Title | Portrait of Dr Erich Salomon
(generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | gelatin silver print |
| Brief description | Photograph by Lux Feininger, 'Portrait of Dr Erich Salomon', c.1930, gelatin silver print |
| Physical description | Black and white photograph of a man in white tie, wearing dark-rimmed glasses and looking through his camera, which is held up to eye level on a tripod. |
| Dimensions | - Height: 24.6cm
- Width: 18.1cm
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| Gallery label | - Lux Feininger (1910–2011)
Portrait of Dr Erich Salomon
About 1930
The photojournalist Erich Salomon poses here
with his Ermanox, a small, wide-aperture camera
that allowed him to work inconspicuously and
in relatively low light conditions. The Ermanox
was produced until 1931, when it was surpassed
by the Leica, a revolutionary new 35mm handheld
camera introduced in 1925 that enabled
photographers to capture fast-moving events.
Gelatin silver print (printed later)
Given by John and Judith Hillelson
Museum no. E.125-2003(23/7/2017-5/3/2017)
- Photography Centre, 2018-20:
Collection in Focus: John and Judith Hillelson
1930s–1970s
The Hillelson collection includes some of the most significant works of photojournalism from the 20th century. John Hillelson (1923–2012) founded the John Hillelson Agency in London’s Fleet Street in 1958. He was also the London agent for Magnum Photos, a cooperative that brings together photojournalists from across the world. His wife Judith (1930–2010) ran the agency's extensive picture library, from which this collection is drawn.
The agency collaborated with weekly magazine editors to publish photo-reportage, a genre that flourished in the 1930s with the invention of smaller, more portable cameras and new printing technology. The Hillelsons gained a reputation for presenting lesser-known work such as the pictures of apartheid, smuggled out of South Africa by Ernest Cole in 1966 and 1967. The Hillelson collection comprises key images from the agency’s library and reflects their position as leading advocates of human interest photography.
23. Back: Lux Feininger (1910–2011)
Portrait of Erich Salomon
About 1930
Gelatin silver print
Museum no. E.125-2003
(10/2018)
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| Credit line | Given by John and Judith Hillelson |
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