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Izis Bidermanas - Lithuanian-Jewish photographer ISRAEL 1955 Limited edition of 15.000 copies Album. Copy no 7377
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Izis Bidermanas - Lithuanian-Jewish photographer ISRAEL 1955 Limited edition of 15.000 copies Album. Copy no 7377
softcover
22x28 cm
159 pages
fair condition
french text
Israëlis Bidermanas (17 January 1911 in Marijampolė – 16 May 1980 in Paris), who worked under the name of Izis, was a Lithuanian-Jewish photographer who worked in France and is best known for his photographs of French circuses and of Paris.
Born in Marijampolė, present-day Lithuania, Bidermanas arrived in France in 1930 to become a painter. In 1933, he directed a photographic studio in the 13th Arrondissement of Paris. During World War II, being a Jew, he had to leave occupied Paris. He went to Ambazac, in the Limousin, where he adopted the pseudonym Izis and where he was arrested and tortured by the Nazis. He was freed by the French Resistance and became an underground fighter. At that time he photographed his companions, including Colonel Georges Guingouin. The poet and underground fighter Robert Giraud was the first to write about Izis in the weekly magazine Unir, a magazine created by the Resistance.
