Portrait of Dr Erich Salomon

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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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Categories	Photographs Portraits
Object type	Photograph
Title	Portrait of Dr Erich Salomon (generic title)
Materials and techniques	gelatin silver print Photographic Paper Gelatin Silver Process
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
Styles	Art Photography 20th Century Second Quarter
Gallery label	(23/7/2017-5/3/2017) 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 (10/2018) 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
Credit line	Given by John and Judith Hillelson
Subjects depicted	Cameras Tripods Spectacles Salomon, Erich
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.125-2003

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Record created	January 27, 2004
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O90119/portrait-of-dr-erich-salomon-photograph-feininger-lux/

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