Photographer - Erich Auerbach

Nationality: Czech
Subject of photography: photojournalist, photographer of musicians and artists
Life dates: 12 December 1911, Sokolov – 1977, Great Britain
Sample of work:

source: http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portraitLarge/mw161751/Sir-Michael-Kemp-Tippett-Benjamin-Britten?LinkID=mp87607&role=art&rNo=1

source: https://www.surfaceview.co.uk/blog/feature/87/la-fenice-by-erich-auerbach

source: http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portraitLarge/mw126039/Benjamin-Britten-Peter-Pears-John-Piper-and-others-in-Venice?LinkID=mp87607&role=art&rNo=0

www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Auerbach_(photographer)

Erich Auerbach (12 December 1911, Sokolov, now the Czech Republic – 1977, Great Britain) was a foremost Czech journalist photographer and the official photographer of the Czechoslovak government in exile during the second world war. After the war he continued working in London to become a recognised photographer of musicians and artists in general.
While in London he worked for Sunday Times, Daily Herald, The Observer or EMI Records. He is the author of well known photographs of Leonard Bernstein, Henry Wood, Pablo Casals, Igor Stravinski or Jacqueline du Pre now owned by the Hulton Archives of the Getty Images.

Collections

Getty Images: artist and musicians photographs from after the war period.
Czech Foreign Ministry still owns a large collection of his war photographs.
National Portrait Gallery in London also owns several of his photographs

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www.gettyimagesgallery.com/collections/archive/erich-auerbach.aspx

Erich Auerbach

The Erich Auerbach collection covers classical music, jazz, ballet and opera from 1945 – 1977 focussing on action shots of personalities and performances rather than staged and posed studio portraiture.

Auerbach worked as a music reviewer and photo-reporter, specialising in the topography and society of Czechoslovakia, Italy, Austria, Yugoslavia, Germany, France and Switzerland, before emigrating to England in 1939. From 1944 he worked as a staff photographer on Illustrated and then freelanced for The Daily Herald, Sunday Times, Observer, ILN, and EMI Record Company.

Auerbach is best known for his music photography. His photojournalistic approach combine with his empathy and knowledge of the subject (he remained an enthusiastic pianist all his life) to produce wonderfully expressive portraits, somehow capturing in visual form the mood and power of the performances he was illustrating. His intimate images of Pablo Cassals, Sir Henry Wood, Bernstein, Stravinsky, Jacqueline du Pre, to name but a few, capture the power, intensity and energy of their personalities and performances that provide a moving testimony of the great composers, conductors and musicians of the post war era.

Links:
www.gettyimagesgallery.com/collections/archive/erich-auerbach.aspx
www.gettyimages.com.au/Search/Search.aspx?contractUrl=2&language=en-GB&family=editorial&p=erich+Auerbach&assetType=image&ep=4
www.corporate.gettyimages.com/masters2/press/articles/BWP_Erich_Auerbach.pdf
www.surfaceview.co.uk/blog/feature/87/la-fenice-by-erich-auerbach
www.art.glyndebourne.com/category/18262/erich-auerbach-photography
www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person.php?LinkID=mp87607&role=art
www.corbisimages.com/photographer/erich-auerbach
www.books.google.com.au/books?id=ajAHXtE3XiwC&pg=PA218&lpg=PA218&dq=Erich+Auerbach+photographer&source=bl&ots=Y3-GJJ-w2R&sig=a5Veo6zYst7hZ23-q6cwhzVk7wc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=n5mBVLrLH4a3mwWFtYGgDw&ved=0CFgQ6AEwDQ#v=onepage&q=Erich%20Auerbach%20photographer&f=false