"In an Instant. Photographs by Fred Stein"
Press Invitation to the Press Conference
Press Release, Thu 7 Nov 2013
The Jewish Museum Berlin’s exhibition "In an Instant. Photographs by Fred Stein" (22 November 2013 to 23 March 2014) is the first retrospective of the work of photographer Fred Stein (1909–1967) to be held in Germany. The son of a rabbi, Fred Stein was born in Dresden and trained as a lawyer there. In 1933 he emigrated to Paris, and in 1941 from there to New York. In the cities of his emigration, he made photography his profession.
With his Leica and later a Rolleiflex, Stein captured countless moments of everyday life in the streets of Paris and New York. He also took more than 1,200 portrait photographs. The list of their subjects reads like a Who is Who of prominent twentieth-century personalities, including such names as Albert Einstein, Thomas Mann, Hannah Arendt, Salvador Dalí, and Hermann Hesse. Presenting more than 130 black-and-white photographs, personal documents, and anecdotes, the exhibition offers wide-ranging insights into the life and work of Fred Stein - an outstanding observer and chronicler of his era.
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We cordially invite you to visit the exhibition before it opens, at a press conference in the exhibition space of the Eric F. Ross Gallery. The photographer’s son Peter Stein will be present and will speak about his father.
| Press Conference | Thursday, 21 November 2013 |
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| Accreditation | from 10.30 am |
| Start | 11 am |
| Where | Libeskind Builiding, ground floor, Eric F. Ross Gallery |
| With | Cilly Kugelmann, Program Director, Jewish Museum Berlin Theresia Ziehe, Curator of Photography, Jewish Museum Berlin Peter Stein, New York, the artist’s son |
A fully illustrated publication offers the first comprehensive overview of the photographer’s oeuvre:
200 pages, bilingual German / English, Heidelberg: Kehrer Verlag, bookstore edition € 49.90.
To help us in planning the press conference, please email us by Tuesday, 19 November if you wish to attend.
