StoryLore Krüger, 1914-2009
Because of her Jewish origins, Lore Krüger had to give up her first job in bank and leave her native country of Germany with the rise to power of Hitler 1933. She moved to London, then later to Spain and Paris, where she trained in photography under Florence Henri. Like her mentor, she was interested in the geometric shapes of everyday objects and also experimented with still lives, abstraction and photograms. She turned to photojournalism as a means of capturing social reality, displaying the same intellectual and political activism by joining immigrant networks to fight against Nazism. In 1940, she was interned at the Gurs camp and on her release emigrated to New York. She returned to Berlin after the war, gave up photography for health reasons and devoted herself to translating English-language literary work. An active photographer during her time exile, some of her best-known images are her series on the gypsy pilgrimage to Saintes -Maries-de-la-Mer, the fisherman of Majorca, and African masks, which illustrate the diversity of her work.