Budapest, Capital of Hungary. The Danube at Budapest seen from the Margit Bridge. In the background the magnificent Parliament building, c. 1938
Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Artist’s PIX agency stamp on verso; typewritten title also affixed to the verso
7 3/8 x 7 inches
Provenance: PIX Publishing, Inc. to an east-coast institution; Private Collection, NYC
Condition: Overall Very Good; handling marks throughout as is typical of a photograph of this time period and made for the purpose of the press, visible only under raking light; corners bumped, barely affecting the image
RS-HG-01
Retail: $2500
Roger Schall (French 1904-1995) (TIME/LIFE)
Schall was a well-known French photographer and photojournalist who regularly worked for Vu and Vogue in the 1930s-40s.
Born in Nancy, France, in 1904 and moved to Paris in 1911. After serving in the Army as an artist, Schall left for Lebanon where he continued to practice photography. He returned to Paris in 1926, and in 1929 began to cooperate with local magazines.
In 1931, Schall opened a studio in Montmartre with his brother and they became a veritable photographic agency, producing over 150 covers for Vu, Vogue, L'Illustration, Life or Paris Match.
During World War II, Schall secretly documented the Nazi occupation of Paris.
He also produced fashion photography for the fetish clothing company Diana Slip (an early 20th-century French manufacturer of lingerie and fetishwear ... They employed renowned photographers of the time, including Roger Schall and Brassai to photograph their products.)
In 1934 his collaboration with the Vogue magazine started. In 1936, on a Vu magazine commission, Schall covered preparations for and the holding of the Olympic Games in Berlin. From 1939 he worked with the LIFE magazine.
Between 1940 and 1944, Schall photographed Paris invaded by the Nazis, focusing on fashion and entertainment in the occupied city. Right after the Liberation, Roger’s brother Raymond published “Paris sous la botte des Nazis”, illustrated with snapshots taken by Schall and other Paris photographers. The book had five reprints. After the war, Schall continued to photograph until 1965.
Publications:
1929: La Revue Du Medecin - Art Et Medecine: 1929 à 1936. 230 photographies d'André Kertesz.
André Kertesz, Germaine Krull, Maurice Tabard, Pierre Boucher, Man Ray, François Kollar, Brassaï, Eli Lotar, Victor Borel, Illa, Roger Schall, Laure Albin_Guillot, Et Al.
1930: Etudes d'art photographique
Brassaï - Nora Dumas - Koruna - Ergy Landau - Roger-Viollet - Schall
1937: LIFE: Sept 6
1937: Photography of the Nude. Marcel Natkin. Illustrations by Man Ray, Pierre Boucher, Roger Schall and Laure Albin Guillot.
1938: LIFE: Aug 15
1939: Art et Médecine: Revue Réservée au Corps Médical, Mars 1939
Brassaï; Roger Schall; Gaston Paris; Albert Rudomine; Keystone; André de Diénès; Pierre Boucher; Alliance; Zuber; Wols (Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze); Vals; Vincent; Feher; André Steiner (Photographs by); Louis Gillet; Raymond Escholier; André Thérive; Tristan Derème; Octave Béliard; Carlos Larronde; René de Laromiguière (Text by); Dr. François Debat (Ed.)
1941: Die Schlösser an der Loire. Mit Photos von Schall, Brassai, Roubier.
Schall, Roger, Brassai u. Jean Roubier (Fotografie)
1944: Victoires des Français en Italie.
Babelay (Jean-Louis). Illustrateur : Schall (Roger), Joranoux (Maurice), Mejat (Raymond), Bertillot (Elie). (Illustrator). Paris, Aux Editions Raymond Schall
2014: Elsie de Wolfe's Paris: Frivolity Before the Storm
Elsie de Wolfe, Charlie Scheips, (Photography) Roger Schall
Monographs:
1937: Acier. Revue trimestrielle, N° 1, Exposition [Arts et Techniques] 1937
SCHALL Roger] [Exposition 1937]
1937: Paris de Jour. SCHALL,ROGER. Cocteau,Jean. (preface).
1944: “À Paris sous la botte des Nazis”
1942 & 1950: “Reflets de France”
1942: Frankreich - Ein Bilderbuch. Photos von Roger Schall, Vorwort und Text von Jean Baugé. Sämtliche Bilder dieses Buches sind Rolleiflex-Aufnahmen.
1946: “An Un”
1954: Visite aux Laboratoires du Dr Debat BY SCHALL ROGER
1997: “Chanel Joaillerie. Chez Mademoiselle 19, place Vendome”
2007: “A bord du Normandie : Journal transatlantique”
by Blaise Cendrars (Author), Colette (Author), Claude Farrère (Author), Pierre Wolff (Author), Roger Schall (Photographer)
"la Normandie ; voyage inaugural"
“Paris au quotidien 1939-1945”
Solo Exhibitions:
2015: Paris By Night – Roger Schall, Galerie Argentic, Paris
Group Exhibitions:
1937: MoMA: “Photography 1839-1937”
1949: MoMA: “The Exact Instant”
2016: Nelson-Atkins: “Surveillance”
PIX Publishing Agency:
We are now representing a large collection of prints from P.I.X. (PIX) Publishing Inc., the photography agency founded in New York City in November 1935 by German photographers Alfred Eisenstaedt & George Karger and photography agents Leon Daniel (chief of Associated Press in Berlin from 1927-1935) & Celia Krutschuk, all of whom fled Nazi Germany and found their new homes in NYC.
In 1973, the PIX Publishing agency archive was donated to an east-coast library where it has since been housed. As of this year, the collection is in private hands.
PIX represented such photographers as Cecil Beaton, Ferenc Berko, Edouard Boubat, Josef Breitenbach, Robert Capa, Joe Clark, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Ed Feingersh, Laura Gilpin, John Gutmann, Nina Leen, Don McCullin, Marion Post-Wolcott, Willy Ronis, Fred Stein, Ezra Stoller, Julian Wasser, Garry Winogrand, George Zimbel and many more.
PIX also worked with the prestigious agencies Camera Press, Dalmas, Gamma, and Holmes-Lebel, among others. PIX also represented Gökşin Sipahioğlu and Gilles Caron, the founders of world-renowned SIPA Press.
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