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  • Founded in 1940 by the emigrant Charles Rado (1899–1970), Rapho Guillumette was a picture agency.
  • Rapho Guillumette
  • Photo Agency

  • Founded in 1940 by the emigrant Charles Rado (1899–1970), Rapho Guillumette was a picture agency.

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  • Together with the photographer Paul Guillumette, Charles Rado opened his photo agency on 475 5th Avenue under the name Rapho Guillumette. The location near Central Station was close to other photo agencies, such as Black Star, Pix Inc., Three Lions Press, Camera Feature, Photo Representatives, Monkmeyer, European Picture Service), photo labs (Leco Photo Service, Service Photo Suppliers, Modernage, Spiratone, Pavelle Laboratories) and the headquarters of several magazines (Life, Look, Popular Photography, Graphic House).Probably towards the end of the 1940s, the agency moved to 59 East 54th Street, a side street off Madison Avenue, still in the press, media and gallery quarter.

    Charles Rado, a Hungarian emigrant, had previously owned a photo agency by the name of Rapho in Paris (founded in 1933), which supported such refugee photographers as Ylla and Brassaï, as well as Eryg Landau.
    After its reopening in New York, the agency continued to represent and foster the work of Ylla, as well as that of other emigrated photographers such as Fred Stein. A 1944 letter from Rado to Fred Stein records the fee Stein received for one his images sold through the agency to Time magazine. The $4 mentioned is equivalent to approximately $59 today.

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  • 475 5th Avenue, Midtown Manhattan, New York City (1940–?).

  • Rapho Guillumette agency letter to Fred Stein, 1944 (© Fred Stein Archive).

  • [url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/10/05/archives/charles-rado-71-of-photo-agency-developed-popular-books-from-yllas.html?sq=charles%2520rado&scp=1&st=cse ]Anonymous. "Charles Rado, 71, of Photo Agency.“ The New York Times, 5 October 1970, S. 46[/url]. Accessed  03 March 2022.

    Bair, Nadya. The Decisive Network: Magnum Photos and the Postwar Image Market. University of California Press, 2020.

    Bouqueret, Christian. Des années folles. Aux années noires. La nouvelle vision photographique en France 1920–1940. Marval, 1997.

    Gilbert, George. The Illustrated Worldwide Who’s Who of Jews in Photography. G. Gilbert, 1996.

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  • Helene Roth
  • 1940

  • Brassai, Ergy Landauer, Fred Stein, Ylla.

  • New York
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  • Helene Roth. "Rapho Guillumette." METROMOD Archive, 2021, https://archive.metromod.net/viewer.p/69/2948/object/5145-10774434, last modified: 13-10-2022.
  • Fred Stein
    PhotographerLawyer
    New York

    Always accompanied by his camera, the German émigré photographer Fred Stein discovered New York City during the 1940s and 1950s. His pictures provide an human and multifaceted view of the metropolis.

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    Rolf Tietgens
    PhotographerEditorWriter
    New York

    Rolf Tietgens was a German émigré photographer who arrived in New York in 1938. Although, in the course of his photographic career, his artistic and surrealist images were published and shown at exhibitions, his work, today, is very little known.

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    Lotte Jacobi
    Photographer
    New York

    In October 1935 the German émigré photographer Lotte Jacobi, together with her sister Ruth Jacobi, opened a photo studio on 57th Street. The two sisters had to leave their parents' photo studio in Berlin in the 1930s and emigrated to New York.

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    Ylla
    Photographer
    New York

    Ylla was an Austrian-born photographer who emigrated to New York in 1941. Specialising in animal photography, she produced not only studio photographs, but also shot outside on urban locations in the metropolis.

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    Black Star Agency
    Photo Agency
    New York

    The German émigrés Kurt S(z)afranski, Ern(e)st Mayer and Kurt Kornfeld founded Black Star in 1936. The photo agency established was a well-run networking institution in New York.

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    PIX Publishing Inc.
    Photo Agency
    New York

    PIX Publishing Inc. was a photo agency founded in New York in 1935 by photo agent Leon Daniel and Celia Kutschuk, together with German émigré photographers Alfred Eisenstaedt and George Karger.

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    Leco Photo Service
    Photo Lab
    New York

    Leco Photo Service was a photofinishing lab, highly-frequented and a contact hub for émigré photographers and photo agencies during the 1930s and 1940s, as well as a provider of employment for women in the photo industry.

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    Schocken Books
    Publishing House
    New York

    Schocken Books was a publishing house established in 1945 in New York by the Russian émigré Salman Schocken (1898–1959). It specialised in books on Judaica and Hebrew topics.

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    Oceana Publications
    Publishing House
    New York

    Oceana Publications Inc was a publishing house specialising in law and civil rights founded by the British émigré Philip F. Cohen (1911–1998) in 1945.

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    Three Lions Inc.
    Photo Agency
    New York

    Little is known about this photo agency, which was founded by two German émigré brothers, Max Georg and Walter Löwenherz in 1937 in New York

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    European Picture Service
    Photo Agency
    New York

    The European Picture Service was a photo agency located in Midtown Manhattan founded, probably in 1930, by the émigré photographer Max Peter Haas (1901–1985).

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    Pavelle Laboratories Inc.
    Photo LabPhoto Supplier
    New York

    Pavelle Laboratories was found in 1936 by Leo and Carmen Pavelle and operated on East 42nd Street. It was specialised in the development of miniature camera film and one of the first labs working with colour film.

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    Modernage Photographic Services Inc
    Photo Lab
    New York

    Modernage Photographic Services was founded in 1944 by the German émigrés Ralph and Leuba Baum and specialised in photofinishing services. In 1954 a second branch, Modernage Custom Darkrooms, was opened.

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    Monkmeyer Photo Service
    Photo Agency
    New York

    The Monkmeyer Photo Service photo agency was founded around 1935/36 by the German émigrés Hilde and Paul August Monkmeyer in New York City.

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    Camera Features
    Photo Agency
    New York

    Camera Features was a photo agency founded by the photographer Werner Wolff and other colleagues of the photo agency PIX.

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    Photo-Representatives
    Photo Agency
    New York

    Photo-Representatives was a photo agency founded by the photographers Erika Stone and Anita Beer in 1953.

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    Service Photo Suppliers Inc.
    Photo Supplier
    New York

    Service Photo Suppliers was a photo supplier distributing a wide variety of photo equipment and opened by the German émigré Hans Salomon (1909–?) in 1945.

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    Spiratone
    Photo Supplier
    New York

    Spiratone was a photo company and photo supplier founded in 1941 by the Austrian émigré family Hans (1888–1944) and Paula Spira (?–?) and their son Fred Spira (1924–2007).

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