David E. Scherman

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David Edward Scherman (* 1916 in New York City , † May 5, 1997 ibid) was an American photojournalist and editor.

Live and act

Scherman, who was born in the New York borough of Manhattan , grew up in New Rochelle , New York State and attended Dartmouth College . He graduated in 1936 and became a photographer for the photo magazine Life , for which he took many pictures during World War II .

On April 17, 1941, Scherman was with a colleague from Fortune magazine , Charles JV Murphy, on the Egyptian freighter Zamzam , when the ship was sunk in the Atlantic by the German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis , which at that time was disguised as a merchant ship under the name Tamesis . Crew and passengers were captured. Scherman took pictures of the ship and was able to smuggle through four rolls of film. After his release, Murphy wrote a post in Life , illustrated with the photos of Scherman, which was published on June 23, 1941 under the title The Sinking of the "Zamzam" . The photos later helped the British to identify the ship Atlantis and then destroy it.

Scherman worked closely with the American photographer Lee Miller , who was employed by Condé Nast for Vogue magazine , and was also briefly in a relationship with her. A photograph of Schermans von Miller in Adolf Hitler's bathtub in his Munich apartment, taken shortly after Hitler's suicide in 1945, is one of the best-known photographs from the partnership.

Scherman gave up his work as a photographer at Life in 1972 and became one of the publishers at the time the magazine ceased its weekly publication and appeared irregularly. Scherman had been married to Rosemarie Redlich, a daughter of the important Austrian politician and lawyer Josef Redlich , since 1949 . He died of cancer in Stony Point, New York, aged 81.

Publications

  • The Best of Life , Time-Life Books, New York 1973, ISBN 978-0-380-00187-3
  • Life Goes to the Movies , Time-Life Books, New York 1975, University of Michigan reissue 2010, ISBN 978-0-6717-9000-4
  • With Rosemarie Redlich: Literary America: A Chronicle of American Writers from 1607-1952 , first edition 1952. Greenwood Pub Group Inc., 1978, ISBN 978-0-8371-8017-5
  • With John R. McCrary: First of the Many: Journal of Action with the Men of the Eighth Air Force , first edition 1944. Robson Books Ltd. 1981, ISBN 978-0-86051-129-8
  • With Richard Wilcox: Literary England: Photographs of Places Made Memorable in English Literature , first edition 1944. Arden Library, 1985, ISBN 978-0-8495-4978-6
  • Antony Penrose (eds.), David E. Scherman (foreword): Lee Miller's War: Photographer and Correspondent with the Allies in Europe 1944-45 . Thames & Hudson, New York 2005 [new edition, first published by Condé Nast Books 1992], ISBN 0-500-28558-6

Secondary literature

  • John Loengard: LIFE Photographers: What They Saw . Little, Brown and Company 1998, ISBN 0-8212-2518-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quoted after the web link The Sinking of the "Zamzam"
  2. ↑ Georg Gaugusch : Who once was. The upper Jewish bourgeoisie in Vienna 1800–1938 . Volume 2: L-R . Amalthea, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-85002-773-1 , p. 2874
  3. ↑ Rosemarie Redlich Scherman Obituary . In: The Journal News , August 16, 2001, online at legacy.com (accessed July 23, 2017)
  4. ↑ Holcomb B. Noble: David Scherman, 81, Editor Whose Photos Sank a Ship , The New York Times , May 7, 1997, accessed April 30, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Scherman, David E.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scherman, David Edward (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American photographer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Manhattan , New York, USA
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 1997
Place of death Stony Point , New York, USA