Elli Marcus (11 December 1899 – 8 August 1977) was a German-American
theater photographer.
Life
Born in Berlin, Marcus opened her first photo studio in Berlin in 1918 and specialised in
fashion photography
Fashion photography is a genre of photography which is devoted to displaying clothing and other fashion items, sometimes haute couture. It typically consists of a fashion photographer taking a picture of a dressed model in a photographic studio o ...
and advertising photography. Outside her studio she worked mainly as a film and theatre photographer.
After Hitler's
Machtergreifung
Adolf Hitler's rise to power began in the newly established Weimar Republic in September 1919 when Hitler joined the '' Deutsche Arbeiterpartei'' (DAP; German Workers' Party). He rose to a place of prominence in the early years of the party. Be ...
in 1933, the early widowed Jewish woman emigrated with her son to Paris in 1934, where she opened another photo studio. When the National Socialists later occupied France, she fled to New York in March 1941. In Hollywood, she photographed
Marlene Dietrich and other stars of the time.
Among her pupils were
Rosemarie Clausen
Rosemarie Clausen (née Rose Marie Margarethe Elisabeth Kögel); (5 March 1907 – 9 January 1990) was a German photographer. She worked as Theatre photography, theatre and Portrait photography, portrait photographer and received several awards fo ...
and
Fred Erismann.
Elli Marcus
on artnet
Marcus died in New York City at the age of 77.
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20th-century American photographers
Theatrical photographers
1899 births
1977 deaths
American women photographers
Photographers from Berlin
Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States
20th-century American women
20th-century German photographers
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