Isaac Kitrosser
Isaac Kitrosser (1899–1984) was a
Family
Isaac Khunovich Kitrosser was born August 27, 1899, in
Both his parents were murdered in the Shoah.[3][4] His father, together with his cousins Osip Moiseevich Kitroser and Grigory Moiseevich Kitroser, was shot to death in the aftermath of the German and Romanian occupation of Soroca in July 1941. His mother was murdered after deportation.[5][6]
Another of his father's cousins, Berthe Moiseevna Kitroser, was the partner and wife of sculptor Jacques Lipchitz. Modigliani painted the two of them in Jacques and Berthe Lipchitz (1916).
Isaac Kitrosser would marry Eugenia Brodskaya and have a daughter Ariane Kitrosser Scarpa. [1]
Career
Pre-war
Kitrosser graduated from the Soroca gymnasium in 1916 and the Electrotechnical Institute of the university of Prague, having studied mechanical and electrical engineering. He moved to Paris in 1922 and opened a photographic equipment store, pursuing photography as both scientist and artist.[7] In the 1930s he invented a technique of chromogenic photographs using ultraviolet light and x-rays. With it he produced colorful x-ray photographs of such things as the human hand, flowers, and seahorses.[2]
As early as 1930 Kitrosser used a
Kitrosser, nicknamed "Kitro," was a regular in 1930s European magazine newsrooms. Like his fellow photographer
Life magazine
Kitrosser become a correspondent for Life magazine in 1938.[7] The April 25, 1938 issue published his photographs of Spanish Loyalist refugees in the Pyrenees. The same issue ran a photographic
Other work in this period included portraits of Luigi Pirandello, 1934 Nobel Prizewinner for literature; local leaders from French colonial Africa (Chad, Sudan, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Africa, Gabon, and Senegal) attending Bastille Day celebrations in France in 1938; and minister Paul Reynaud after a French cabinet meeting.
He covered events such as Édouard Belin, inventor of the Bélinographe wirephoto, speaking at a celebration honoring Louis Daguerre, on stage with movie star Mona Goya; a garden party at Château Saint-Firmin; a strike at Citroën in 1938; and the mobilization of French reservists on September 1, 1938.
At a ball at the US Embassy in Paris on February 1, 1939, he photographed US Ambassador William C. Bullitt; French politicians Joseph Paul-Boncour and Paul Reynaud; American sculptor Jo Davidson; Russian dancer Serge Lifar; and the Duchess of Windsor speaking with Marthe Lahovary, Princess Bibesco.[11]
Second World War
Kitrosser engaged in the French Resistance during the Second World War. He was arrested by the Gestapo and interned at Septfonds (Tarn-et-Garonne) where he managed to continue as a photographer. His photographs of Septfonds, including "Cérémonie juive dans le camp de Septfonds," were among the first published concentration camp photos after liberation in 1944.[10]
Post-war
After the war Kitrosser worked on the staff of
He died in Paris August 10, 1984.
References
- ^ a b "Descendants of Alter and Tova Kitrosser". Retrieved September 22, 2019.
- ^ a b Haham, David. "World Celebrities Come From Moldova: Photographer Isaac Kitrosser". Locals.md. Retrieved October 1, 2019.
- ^ The Central Database Of Shoah Victims' Names Ver. B-110.3. "Khuna Kitroser". Yad Vashem - The World Holocaust Remembrance Center. Retrieved September 22, 2019.
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: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ The Central Database Of Shoah Victims' Names Ver. B-110.3. "Blyuma Kitrosser". Yad Vashem - The World Holocaust Remembrance Center. Retrieved September 22, 2019.
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: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Memorial to the Victims of Fascism in Soroca". Retrieved September 22, 2019.
- ^ "Letter from Red Army to Samuel Kitrosser". Retrieved September 22, 2019.
- ^ a b c d "Musée français de la photographie, Histoires De Photographies". Retrieved September 22, 2019.
- ^ Prestige de la Photographie no. 3 (December 1977), 137-153.
- ^ a b "BnF data". Retrieved September 22, 2019.
- ^ a b Fuksa-Anselme, Elisa. "Le Camp de Septfonds par Kitrosser". Musée français de la photographie. Retrieved September 22, 2019.
- ^ a b "Kitrosser stock photos". getty images. Retrieved September 22, 2019.
- ^ "An Army Corps of the Spanish Loylists Skis to Refuge in France". Life. April 25, 1938. Retrieved September 30, 2019.