Erich Salomon fonds

Erich Salomon (1886-1944) was one of the most significant 20th-century photographers. Even during his lifetime, the photographer with a doctorate in law ‒ accepted as an equal by powerful figures in politics, culture and society ‒ earned unusual success and recognition for his work as a photographic journalist. The son of an upper bourgeois-Jewish family in Berlin became a star reporter at the Ullstein publishing house almost overnight in 1928, when his first secretly taken reportages from the law courts became known. Soon afterwards, he enjoyed success with previously unseen images from the world of political conferences. The photographic estate of the famous photo journalist constitutes one of the most extensive and prominent complexes within the photographic collection of the Berlinische Galerie. It contains glass and film negatives, slides, and above all vintage prints, but also examples of printed works and documents on the photographer's life and œuvre. All in all there are over 10,000 photographs, negatives and archive items in the Erich Salomon Archive. Here you can see a small selection of objects. Using the "Search" you will find all digitalised parts of the archive.