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The Other Look of Erwin Blumenfeld

The Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme in Paris devotes an illuminating exhibition to Erwin Blumenfeld, a photographer who wore many hats, and focuses on his most prolific period through the prism of two unpublished reportages, his outlook on art, and his life during the Occupation.

Erwin Blumenfeld (1897–1969) is best known as the highest paid Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar fashion photographer in the mid-twentieth century. The Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme (MahJ) in Paris shows him in a different light, focusing on his “tr...

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