PHOTOGRAPHER

Erich Salomon

1886 - 1944

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Erich Salomon (28 April 1886 – 7 July 1944) was a German Jewish news photographer known for his pictures in the diplomatic and legal professions and the innovative methods he used to acquire them. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Erich Salomon is the 72nd most popular photographer (down from 65th in 2019), the 3,654th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,506th in 2019) and the 13th most popular German Photographer.

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Erich Salomon ranks 72 out of 148Before him are Gertrude Käsebier, Alexander Gardner, Cornell Capa, René Burri, Imogen Cunningham, and Karl Blossfeldt. After him are Karimeh Abbud, Marc Riboud, Werner Bischof, William P. Gottlieb, Lennart Nilsson, and Berry Berenson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Erich Salomon ranks 175Before him are Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke, Stanisław Leśniewski, Arthur Jeffrey Dempster, Peter Freuchen, H.D., and Barbara Karinska. After him are Edward Lindberg, Chester Conklin, Rudolf Belling, Catherine Desnitski, Jun'ichi Kōuchi, and Rose Wilder Lane. Among people deceased in 1944, Erich Salomon ranks 205Before him are Peter Struve, Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, Luigi Maglione, Edwin Lutyens, Orde Wingate, and Nikolai Kuznetsov. After him are Adam von Trott zu Solz, Inigo Campioni, Henry Wood, Noël Édouard, vicomte de Curières de Castelnau, Lucien Pissarro, and Shōji Nishimura.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Erich Salomon ranks 3,656 out of 7,253Before him are Duchess Marie of Württemberg (1799), Louis George, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1702), Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel (1783), Robert Kovač (1974), Diana Damrau (1971), and Oscar Goßler (1875). After him are Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg (1826), Karl Josef Becker (1928), Otto Gessler (1875), Glückel of Hameln (1646), Christian Oliver (1972), and Friedrich von Ingenohl (1857).

Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In Germany

Among photographers born in Germany, Erich Salomon ranks 13Before him are Astrid Kirchherr (1938), Andreas Gursky (1955), Gisèle Freund (1908), Grete Stern (1904), Lothar Wolleh (1930), and Karl Blossfeldt (1865). After him are Heinrich Zille (1858), Albert Renger-Patzsch (1897), Ellen von Unwerth (1954), Annemarie Heinrich (1912), Thomas Struth (1954), and Ilse Bing (1899).