Ilse Bing and Ellen Auerbach – both were of Jewish descent and born around 1900 in Germany. They studied in Germany and emigrated in the 1930s. Each was an exceptional photographer.
In 1992, Antonia Lerch, documentary maker from Berlin, visited the artists in New York. She lets them speak for themselves, gently, without comment or making a show of it. The results are direct, touching movies in which personality history, contemporary history, and the history of photography flow together in a harmonious way. A stirring cultural testimony to a past generation.
Film showing attended by the film director
Documentary films, New York 1992, each 57 minutes
One of the accompanying events for the In an Instant. Photographs by Fred Stein exhibition.
Past event
Where
Old Building, ground level, Auditorium
Lindenstraße 9–14, 10969 Berlin
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Events Accompanying the Exhibition: In an Instant: Photographs by Fred Stein (4)
In an Instant: Photographs by Fred Stein
In 2014, during the exhibition, the Jewish Museum Berlin gave guided tours and held additional events on the themes of this retrospective.
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Ilse Bing and Ellen Auerbach
14 April 2014
Two Film portraits by Antonia Lerch, each 57 minutes, New York 1992 -
Making of
13 March 2014
Tour of the exhibition In an Instant. Photographs by Fred Stein -
"Dresden exiled me – so I became a photographer"
30 January 2014
Curator tour of the exhibition In an Instant. Photographs by Fred Stein -
Poetry and Sociology of the Street
13 February 2014
Talk by the curators about the photographic context of Fred Stein’s work