Research Catalog

Title

• Eye to I : the autobiography of a photographer / Erwin Blumenfeld ; translated by Mike Mitchell and Brian Murdoch.

Author

Blumenfeld, Erwin, 1897-

Publication

New York, N.Y. : Thames and Hudson, 1999.

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Additional Authors

• Mitchell, Mike (Translator)
• Murdoch, Brian, 1944-

Description

384 p. : ill., ports.; 24 cm.

Summary

The life of Erwin Blumenfeld, one of the century's best-known photographers, was by no means conventional. By turns acerbic, self-mocking, playful, even absurd, his autobiography is a compelling, virtuoso account of an extraordinary man. All his subjects - his Jewish family, the Germans, the Vichy French, his models, New York publishers - are dealt equal measures of wit, mockery, and merciless irony. He spares himself least of all.

Uniform Title

Durch tausendjährige Zeit. English

Alternative Title

• Durch tausendjährige Zeit.
• Eye to eye

Subject

• Blumenfeld, Erwin, 1897-
• Photographers > Germany > Biography

Genre/Form

Autobiographies

Note

• Translation of Durch tausendjährige Zeit which was first published in 1976; revision published in 1998 under title: Einbildungsroman.
• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 380-382) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Prenatal Education -- The Medicine Man -- Delivery -- Epitaphs -- Nomina Sunt Omina -- Mama -- Papa -- Parental Dreams -- Grandpapa Moses and Grandmama Lisette -- Grandpapa Henry -- Heinz -- Annie -- Children's Games -- Fears -- Taboos and Totems -- Iwan -- 140 Wilhelmstrasse -- Gieritz the Clockmaker -- School -- Jadis et Daguerre -- My Best Friend -- L'Education Sentimentale -- Kitty-Cat -- The Arts -- Music -- Theatre -- The Mirror -- Poetry and Prose -- Barmitzvah -- The Joys of Discovery -- My Olympians -- The Turn of the Century -- Breakdown -- M and S -- Papa's End -- Princip(le) -- The Future Looks Black for Thirteen -- War Breaks Out -- Leentje -- A Hero's Life -- Jadis et la Guerre -- La Petite Ville de Verrieres -- Lucille -- Field Brothel Number 209 -- Some Bordello-Ballads from the Rue Des Juifs -- Flanders -- Forced March -- On Leave -- Peace Without Honour -- Holland -- Misere Noire -- Paris -- La Belle Helaine -- Avant et Apres -- The Tale of Grimm the Beautiful -- En Vogue -- Made It! -- Exodus -- My Most Handsome Model -- Downhill -- Loriol -- Le Vernet D'Ariege -- Catus -- The Three Horsemen of the Apocalypse -- How to Get Your American Visa -- The Mont Viso -- Blumenffld Studio Inc. -- Adaile -- Westward Ho! -- O'Hole -- Retake -- Postscript.

ISBN

050001907X

LCCN

^^^98075140^

OCLC

40646930

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library