Zoltán Glass
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Zoltán Glass (26 April 1903 – 24 February 1982) was a Hungarian photographer.[1] He was one of the renown photographers of the 20th century.[2] He was known to his friends as ”Zolly”.[3]
Glass was born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary on 26 April 1903, to Reszon and Olga Glass, a Jewish couple.[4]
In 1925 Glass started working as a cartoonist and retoucher. In 1931 he moved to Berlin where he established himself as a photographer, working first as a picture editor of a Berlin evening paper, the 5-8 Uhr Abendblatt, and then, as a photojournalist at the Berliner Tagblatt. A keen motorsport enthusiast, Glass covered most of the big races at the Nürburgring and the Avus circuits. His photos of the Mercedes-Benz team received widespread public acclaim. However, in 1936 he was dismissed from the newspaper Berliner Tageblatt due to his Jewish ancestry. In 1938 he fled Germany, bringing his negatives to London.[4]
During his London period, Glass had a second career as a fashion and glamour photographer. Pamela Green was one of his regular models. Some of his work appeared in Lilliput, the Daily Mirror and Life. He also worked as a stills photographer for film director Zoltan Korda, brother of Alexander Korda.
Zoltán glass had a brother called Stephen[5] who was also a photographer and who fled Europe before the War. The brothers regularly shared studio space in London. Stephen made a name for himself as a naturist photographer and photographed Pamela Green several times as well.
In 1964 he sold his studios in Chelsea to a consortium of British Photographers and moved to France with his common-law with Pat who was a former cabaret dancer.[6] He died in 1982 at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin in France.[4]
Books
- Neue Wege Der Aktfotografie Von Zoltán Glass (Karl Hofmann Schordorf 1955)
- Zoltán Glass: Speed and Spirit (Hatje Cantz Verlag 2000)
References
- ^ "ZOLTÁN GLASS (1903-1981)". Pamela Green: Never Knowingly Overdressed.
- ^ "Zoltan Glass Photographs Digitized". Super Street Network. Jul 31, 2009. Retrieved Aug 27, 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Nudist Camp Follies. Wolfbait Books. 2019. p. 5. ISBN 9781999744182.
- ^ a b c Reynolds, John (20 Feb 2001). "John Reynolds rediscovers the life and work of automotive photographer Zoltán Glass". Sharp Shooter. The Telegraph. Retrieved 14 Feb 2013.
- ^ Glass, Stephen (2020). Nymphs and Naiads: Beauty Unadorned and Outdoors. Wolfbait Books. pp. 5–9. ISBN 9781916215122.
- ^ Naked in the Menagerie. Wolfbait Books. 2018. p. 9. ISBN 9781999744175.
External links
- Zoltán Glass (1903 – 1981)
- Racing and fashion photographs from Science and Society Picture Library
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