Erich Salomon 1886 - 1944

occupation:
Photographer
Nationality:
German

News photographer, noted for 'candid' photographs often taken using concealed methods; born Berlin, begain taking photographs in 1927; worked for 'Illustrirte Zeitung'; with raise of Nazi party in Germany he fled to Holland but was interned during second world war and executed at Auschwitz in 1944