His family escaped deportation due to his father's British nationality. At fifteen he used his father's Leica to photograph chateaux in the Loire. He worked first for the American movie industry on The Longest Day and Cleopatra before concentrating on socio-political subjects: Christmas in Berlin, strikes at Decazeville , Italian peasants, and old age. Herschtritt carried out a three-month long mission in Sub-Saharan Africa at the request of the Ministry of Cooperation in He was a member of the Paris photo club Les 30 x 40 , [ 1 ] where he was also one of the outspoken young guard, [ 11 ] and there exhibited his photographs of the demonstrations of May That year, he was photographer on an advertisement campaign for Olivetti in France, Sweden, Denmark and Belgium.
With his wife, Nicole, Herschtritt managed Le Bistrot de Montmartre in where every month he organised shows; forty over four years. In , until , Herschtritt stopped taking photographs to trade as an antique dealer at the Saint Ouen flea market , [ 1 ] and to build a collection of classic images and cameras, and in he opened photography gallery at the market.
A second 'Photojournalism at Auction' in was followed by an important sale of prints by Nadar. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history.
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