Love Rearm’d

Erwin Blumenfeld, Unititled, Paris, 1939. (Editorial Harper’s Bazaar, October 1939). Photo © The Estate of Erwin Blumenfeld.

Blumenfeld Countergambit

Erwin Blumenfeld, Variant of the photograph published in American Vogue magazine, August 1, 1950, p. 63 (model: Dovima). Photo © The Estate of Erwin Blumenfeld.

Variants and Invariants

Erwin Blumenfeld, Variant of the photograph published in Life magazine entitled The Picasso Girl (model: Lisette), c. 1941–1942. Photo © The Estate of Erwin Blumenfeld.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee

Bee, New York, 1995
Photo © Irving Penn

Till Victory

Fashion Montage, 1950 As well as further editorial work – including shooting the first black woman in Vogue – Erwin Blumenfeld took on lucrative commercial work for the likes of Elizabeth Arden and L’Oréal. Photo: Erwin Blumenfeld.

The Sun Still Rises

Dada Dancers (Schule der Physik), 1924-6, mixed media Born in Berlin in 1897, Erwin Blumenfeld befriended the dada artist George Grosz as a young man, and began making photo collages. Photo: Erwin Blumenfeld.

Les Amants (sans Amant)

Hands, Paris, 1937 When he was in Paris, Erwin Blumenfeld befriended Henri Matisse. This led to his work being published first in Verve magazine, and then in Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar. Photo: Erwin Blumenfeld.