Erich Salomon

Erich Salomon

1886-1944

About

Erich Salomon specialized in “candid” photographs and unposed portraits. Born in Berlin in 1886, he studied law and mechanical engineering at the University of Munich. During World War I he was captured by the French and spent four years as a prisoner of war. He went to work in the publicity department of Ullstein Verlag, a publishing house in Berlin and bought his first camera in 1927.

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