Eric SHAAL: SS Normandie, France, 1935/ TIME - LIFE/ PIX Agency / VINTAGE/ STAMPED
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Eric Schaal(German-Jewish 1905-1994) (TIME/LIFE) Born in Munich, Germany. He spent 1928 to 1930 living withan uncle in New York and it was during this period that he began takingportraits of celebrities from the art world, first of all as a hobby. He keptthis up after his return to Munich and the result was a series of impressivephotographs of figures like Igor Stravinsky and Béla Bartók. Schaal went into exile in the USA in 1936 and became aprofessional photographer in New York. He became a US citizen in 1944. In 1964, he returned to Paris and worked for the Pix photo agency and the magazines Timeand Life portraying numerous artists and academics, such as Salvador Dalí, Giorgio de Chirico, writers Louis-Ferdinand Celine or Stefan Zweig, musiciansIgor Stravinsky or Serge Prokofiev, philosopher Martin Heidegger and scientistAlbert Einstein. Woody Guthrie:Onassignment for LIFE in 1943, photographer Eric Schaal followed Woody Guthrie ashe gave impromptu performances around New York—in bars, on the stoops ofbrownstones, on the subway. Engaging and at ease, the Woody Guthrie of thesephotos is exactly where he liked to be: among working people, and the childrenof working people, guitar in hand, sharing his own lyrics and the lyrics ofother folk musicians with the very men and women those lyrics were alwayswritten for, and about. – TIME, Apr 24, 2013 by Ben Cosgrove (20 images) -- http://time.com/3876796/woody-guthrie-in-new-york-photos-of-an-american-treasure-1943/ Found Publications:1937: LIFE: Sept 6, p. 1001938: LIFE: Aug 15, p. 71939: LIFE: Jul 3, 1939, p. 701939: LIFE May 15, p. 141941: LIFE: Dec 15, 1941, p. 251941: LIFE: Sept 8, 1941, p. 231942: LIFE: May 251943: LIFE: Oct 181943: LIFE: Nov 22, 1943, p. 701944: LIFE: Feb 141944: LIFE: Jan 31, p. 151945: LIFE: May 28, 1945, p. 271945: Popular Photography: May, p. 161945: LIFE: Nov 5, 19451947: LIFE: Nov 17, 1947, p. 311947: LIFE Jan 20, 43-461948: Popular Photography: Jun, p. 601948: LIFE: Jan 5, 1948, p. 61949: Popular Photography: Jan, p. 491951: LIFE: LIFE Jul 30, P. 691956: LIFE: Nov 12, 1956, p. 21966: LIFE: Dec 23, 1966, p. 61975: New York Magazine: Sept 29, p. 68Dance Index: The Recent Theater of Martha Graham, by RobertHoranDance Index: Strawinsky in the Theatre, a symposium preparedby Minna Lederman
Books:1998: “Dali and Photography: Collaborations with Eric Schaaland Philippe Halsman”2002: Salvador Dali’s Dream of Venus: The Surrealist Funhousfrom the 1939 World’s Fair, by Ingrid Schaffner2006: Dali versus Schaal, by Eric Schaal2012 Le Surrealisme c'est moi!: Hommage to Salvador Dali, byGerald A. MattSalvador Dalí & Andy Warhol: Encounters in New York andBeyond, by Torsten Otte, 2016 Solo Exhibitions:Mar-Dec 2006: “Dali versus Schaal”, Dali Foundation, Catalonia, Spain1939: “Dali”, Julien Levy Gallery, NY (The gallery was openfrom 1931-1949 Group Exhibitions:Feb-May, 2017: “Mad About Surrealism:, Museum Boijmans VanBeuningen, RotterdamJun-Sept 2003: Salvador Dali: Dream of Venus, Queens Museumof ArtNov-Dec 1951: Memorable LIFE Photographs, MoMA &Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (May 1951)May-July 1950: Color Photography, MoMAMarch-April 1949: The 28th Annual Exhibition ofAdvertising and Editoria Art of the New York Art Directors Club, MoMA Collections:Columbia University in the City of New York, Frederick FriedConey Island collection, 1847-2001Dali Foundation, Catalonia, Spain -- acquired in 2005consisting of 218 negatives, 68 period copies on paper, 43 slides Dartmouth CollegeDeutsche National Bibliothek (literary estate: German ExileArchive 1933–1945 in Frankfurt am Main)Port Washington Public Library, NYUniversity of Pittsburgh Library System
PIX Publishing Agency:We are now representing a large collection of prints fromP.I.X. (PIX) Publishing Inc., the photography agency founded in New York Cityin November 1935 by German photographers Alfred Eisenstaedt & George Kargerand photography agents Leon Daniel (chief of Associated Press in Berlin from1927-1935) & Celia Krutschuk, all of whom fled Nazi Germany and found theirnew homes in NYC. In 1973, the PIX Publishing agency archive was donated to aneast-coast library where it has since been housed. As of this year, thecollection is in private hands. PIX represented such photographers as Cecil Beaton, FerencBerko, Edouard Boubat, Josef Breitenbach, Robert Capa, Joe Clark, AlfredEisenstaedt, Ed Feingersh, Laura Gilpin, John Gutmann, Nina Leen, Don McCullin, Marion Post-Wolcott, Willy Ronis, Fred Stein, Ezra Stoller, Julian Wasser, Garry Winogrand, George Zimbel and many more. PIX also worked with the prestigious agencies Camera Press, Dalmas, Gamma, and Holmes-Lebel, among others. PIX also represented GökşinSipahioğlu and Gilles Caron, the founders of world-renowned SIPA Press.
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