GEORGE FRIEDMAN

Born in Hungary in 1910, in 1927 he emigrated to France, where he worked in cinema as a cameraman and illuminator with directors such as Rudolph Maté, Alexander Korda, Dimitri Kirsanoff, among others. With the development of the film industry in Hollywood, in 1936 he moved to the USA to make short films for MGM, while collaborating as a photojournalist for Paris Match magazine. Two years later he returned to Paris and worked for film magazines. In 1939 he decided to settle down with his family in Argentina, where he turned to photography. He worked as a graphic reporter for Editorial Atlántida and magazines such as Vu, Time and Life. Since 1947 he was linked to César Civita, founder and director of Editorial Abril, and began to participate in the magazines Nocturno and Idilio. There, exploiting his cinematographic gaze, he produced a series of 'photonovels' which are a central body of his work together with urban photography. He died in Buenos Aires in 2002.