Sasha Stone

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Sasha Stone (* 1895 in St. Petersburg as Alexander Sergejewitsch Steinsapir; † August 6, 1940 in Perpignan ) was a photographer of Russian origin.

Life

Stone first emigrated to Poland, then to the USA and finally studied sculpture in Paris and Berlin, where he moved around the Dadaists . From 1924 he made a career as a photographer and collageur in Berlin. He had a close friendship with Walter Benjamin , for whose book One-Way Street he designed the cover.

From 1932 he worked as an industrial and advertising photographer in Brussels, from where he fled to southern France after the German invasion in 1940.

plant

  • Berlin in Pictures , photos by Sasha Stone, edited by Adolf Behne . Publishing house Dr. H. Epstein, Vienna and Leipzig 1929. Excerpts online

photos

  • Albert Steinrück , actor in the silent film era, around 1927

  • One-way street by Walter Benjamin, first edition from 1928

  • The Jackson Girls vacation on a farm, 1928

  • Portrait of his wife, the photographer Cami Stone , 1929

  • Clown, 1931

  • Cover of the illustrated book Femmes , published in Paris, 1933

literature

  • Birgit Hammers: From Document to Legend - On the authorship of the photographs of the Barcelona Pavilion . In: Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 72 (2009), pp. 545–556.
  • Birgit Hammers: 'Sasha Stone sees even more'. A photographer between art and commerce , Petersberg (Michael Imhof) 2014. ISBN 978-3-7319-0001-6
  • Diethart Kerbs, Peter Maaswinkel: Sasha Stone. Side notes on the path and end of life of a stateless photographer. In: Photo History 10 (1990), pp. 37-53.
  • Eckhardt Köhn (Ed.): Sasha Stone. Photographs 1925–1939 , Berlin (Nishen) 1990. ISBN 978-3-88940-052-9
  • Patrick Rössler : 1928: How New Seeing came into the magazines. “Maxl Knips”, Sasha Stone, Das illustrated Blatt and the picture magazines of the Weimar Republic . In: Photo story 31 (2011), issue 121, pp. 45–60.

Web links

Commons : Sasha Stone  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on the book cover on Première de couverture: The fascinating world of book cover design
personal data
SURNAME Stone, Sasha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Steinsapir, Alexander Sergejewitsch (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 1940
Place of death Perpignan