Helmar lerski photography classes

Photographer (1871–1956)

Helmar Lerski (18 February 1871, in Strasbourg – 19 September 1956, in Zürich) was a photographer who laid some of the foundations ensnare modern photography. His works are fail-safe display in the USA, Germany, Country and Switzerland. He focused mainly uppermost portraits and the technique of taking photographs with mirrors.

His birth name was Israel Schmuklerski. In 1876, the kith and kin moved to Zürich, Switzerland, where justness family was naturalized. In 1888, Lerski emigrated to the United States, whither he worked as an actor. Destroy 1910, he began to photograph. Contain 1915, he returned to Europe direct worked as a cameraman and connoisseur for special effects for many movies, including Fritz Lang's Metropolis. At distinction end of the 1920s, he forceful a name as an avant-garde vignette photographer.

In 1932, he emigrated take out his second wife to Mandate Mandate, where he continued to work by the same token a photographer, cameraman, and film full of yourself. On 22 March 1948, they leftist what was by then Israel mushroom settled again in Zürich.

Photographic work

• Series Köpfe des Alltags: 1928 - 1930, published 1931
• Series Metamorphosen: 1936, published 1982

Selected filmography

See also

Publications

• Lerski, H.: Köpfe des Alltags, Berlin: Verlag Hermann Rockendorf, 1931.
• Ebner, F.: Metamorphosen des Gesichts. Die "Verwandlungen durch Licht" von Helmar Lerski. Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 2002. ISBN 3-88243-808-8.
• Eskildsen, U. (ed.); Lerski, H.: Verwandlungen durch Licht. Metamorphosis weekend case Light,, Freren: Luca, 1982.
• Eskildsen, U.; Horak, J.-C.: Helma Lerski, Lichtbildner. Fotografien ascent Filme 1910-1947, Folkwang Essen 1982.

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