Fred Stein: Dresden - Paris - New York

The people he photographed are famous, and famous are his portraits and cityscapes. The name of the photographer, however, is little known so far. Fred Stein is one of the pioneers of the small—format photography of the 1930s and 1940s. The oeuvre of the man who only became a photographer by happenstance is a moving and dynamic testimony of 20th—century history. Stein created impressive pictures of cities and people. Born in Dresden in 1909as the son of a rabbi, he became a stalwart sociali...