Welcome to Erwin Blumenfeld's website, one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century. An experimenter and innovator, he produced an extensive body of work including drawings, collages, portraits and nudes, celebrity portraiture, advertising campaigns and his renowned fashion photography both in black and white and color. This site has been created by the grandchildren of Erwin Blumenfeld as a one-stop resource for anyone interested in his work. Please contact us if you have questions about any of the images or information presented here, or if you have information to contribute. If you have requests to publish, reproduce or distribute any of his images, please just ask.

WORK

“And so I became when there was really nothing left for me to do, a photographer. Everyone told me not to do it. Failed painters became window-dressers, failed window-dressers became photographers.”

NEWS

THE POST STAMP « JULIETTE GRÉCO » BY ERWIN BLUMENFELD

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La Poste, february 2025

In February 2025, the French Post Office honored both Juliette Gréco and Erwin Blumenfeld by issuing a stamp bearing the image of Juliette Gréco (1927-2020), featuring one of his portraits of the French singer.

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