Eli Lotar (born Eliazar Lotar Teodorescu; January 30, 1905 – May 10, 1969) was a French photographer and cinematographer. Lotar was born in Paris, the son of Tudor Arghezi, a Romanian poet, and Constanța Zissu, a teacher. http://www.ziaruldemures.ro/index.php?id=25&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=5545 He became a French citizen in 1926 and met the German photographer

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. He took part in many exhibitions with Krull and photographer André Kertész. Lotar published his photographs in reviews such as ''Jazz'', ''Variétés'', ''Bifur'', and ''

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''. His reportage on the Parisian La Villette's slaughterhouses (1929, issue 6) was a theme very much in line with

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's interests in sacrificial rituals and became one of his best-known works. Lotar also frequented cinematic and theatrical circles, through which he met filmmakers René Clair and Luis Buñuel, theater director

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and playwright Roger Vitrac. Lotar was the cinematographer on Buñuel's '' Las Hurdes: Tierra Sin Pan''. A member of the

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, Lotar worked with filmmakers such as

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Joris Ivens Georg Henri Anton "Joris" Ivens (18 November 1898 – 28 June 1989) was a Dutch documentary filmmaker. Among the notable films he directed or co-directed are '' A Tale of the Wind'', '' The Spanish Earth'', ''Rain'', ''...A Valparaiso'', ''M ...

Jean Painlevé Jean Painlevé (20 November 1902 – 2 July 1989) was a photographer and filmmaker who specialized in underwater fauna. He was the son of mathematician and twice prime minister of France Paul Painlevé. Upbringing A few days after Painlev� ...

, and

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, as a set photographer or as a cameraman. He assisted

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and directed three films, one of which, ''Aubervilliers'' (1946), was selected for the Cannes Film Festival in 1946. During his last years, which were particularly somber, he became close friends with

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and posed for several of his sculptures.

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* 1905 births 1969 deaths French photojournalists French people of Romanian descent {{France-photographer-stub