About German-American photographer Fred STEIN (1909-1967)

Fred STEIN was a master of the art of street photography. As an early pioneer of the hard-held camera, he captured poignant moments in the street life of two of the world's great cites: Paris and New York, where he lived after fleeing from Nazi Germany. This same immediacy infuses his penetrating portraits of the great personalities of the era, among them Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, Georgia O'Keefe, Marc Chagall, or the portraits of Gerda TARO and Robert CAPA, recovered in the legendary 'Mexican Suitcase'. His images are a vital document of the 20th century and an important part of photo history. Among the museums where his photographs can be found are the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington; the International Center of Photography, New York; the National Portrait Gallery, Washington; The Center for Creative Photography, Tucson; The Musee Carnavalet, Paris; and the Jewish Museum, New York. He left behind a complex and extensive oeuvre.

Photo books and films by as well as on the work by Fred STEIN

  • '5th Avenue 100 photographs' (1947); 'Paris New York' (2013, 2019); 'Dresden – Paris – New York' (2018); 'Kinder – Children' (2019); 'Light Out of Darkness: The Photography of Fred Stein' (film, 2019); 'Report from Exile: Fotografien von Fred Stein' (2020); Black and White' (2022)

New Ed., HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24,5 x 31,5 x 2,5 cm., 200 pp., 128 duotone b/w ills., bilingual texts: German / English
39,90 € *