Clemens Kalischer | The Sun Magazine #2

Clemens Kalischer

Clemens Kalischer was born in Bavaria, Germany, and immigrated to the United States in 1942. His photographs appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, and Time. He died in 2018 at the age of ninety-seven.

— From June 2023
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The Work Of Clemens Kalischer

Born in Germany in 1921, Clemens Kalischer arrived in the United States at the age of twenty-one, a Jewish immigrant who’d narrowly survived the Holocaust. He had no money and spoke no English. One of his few possessions was a book of photographs by Hungarian Jewish photographer André Kertész. Titled Paris Vu Par, it was filled with iconic images of the city.

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Postmaster, Peacham, Vermont, 1958.

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Clemons Kalischer in his studio, Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

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Longshoremen, New York City, 1947.

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One-room school, Peacham, Vermont, 1958.

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