Blende Auf: Josef Breitenbach
In: Fractured Biographies
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Wolfgang Schopf
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The photographer Josef Breitenbach (1896–1984) began his career three times: first in Munich, then in 1933 in exile in Paris, and finally in 1941 in New York, the last stage of his flight. Breitenbach should not be seen simply as the victim of circumstances. He reacted to the threat to his existence by developing his career, acquiring skills which he would probably never have added to his repertoire had he not been forced into exile. And in Paris he moved from the periphery to the centre of events as the photographic chronicler who documented the cultural activities of the ‘other Germany’. These activities are brought alive by the photographs found in Breitenbach’s estate.