Fred Stein
dal 25/11/2013 al 30/1/2014
Segnalato da
25/11/2013
Fred Stein
Flo Peters Gallery, Hamburg
Paris - New York. An exhibition dedicated to the works of the german-american photographer
Fred Stein was born in Dresden in 1909 and studied jurisprudence in Leipzig. Restrained from job practise for being jewish and politically active, he fled from the NS regime pressure and escaped to Paris in 1933. Stein began to dedicate himself to photography and managed to make a living from the former hobby. He took portraits of many emigrated intellectuals and artists; leading european personalities he and his wife kept company with. Besides that, he went through Paris taking photos of street life scenes - snap shots full of beauty and hope in times of fear and despair. After being put in an internment camp when war broke out, in 1941 Stein and his wife managed to escape to New York. His passion became a real profession: Stein recorded big city street life, shot photographs of New York's vibrant and calm sides and continued to make portraits of writers, artists, politicians - from Albert Einstein over Dorothy Parker up to Henry Kissinger and Frank Lloyd Wright. He approaches his portraits with the same spontaneousness and frankness as street scenes. (Image: Le Gaz, Paris, 1935 C Fred Stein) Opening: Tuesday November 26, 2013, 6-8pm.