In 2006, Leon Herschritt celebrated 50 years in photography. To him we owe such iconic portraits of Jean-Paul Sartre, the General De Gaulle, Salvador Dali, Catherine Deneuve, as well as many other images of photojournalism crafted by this humanist author. (http://www.loeildelaphotographie.com/en/2011/02/13/article/11317/leon-herschritt-at-seine-51/) With a passion for photography from an early age, Léon Herschtritt studied at the Ecole Nationale de la Photographie. Sent to Algeria to teach photography, Leon Herschtritt spent his days in idleness, but met Nicole, who became his wife, and photographed children in the streets of Algiers. With Les Gosses d’Algérie, his first series published in the magazine Réalités, he received in 1960 – at the age of 24 – the famous Prix Niépce from the Association Gens d’images. Back in Paris, he worked as a freelance photographer ands the Parisian correspondent for Camera Press Agency. He published his reportages and portraits of celebrities in magazines and joined the famous club of photography 30×40. Through random friendships, meetings or assignments, the young Léon had breakfast with Jacques Prévert and his friends every Sunday, photographed Gainsbourg, Sartre or Jane Fonda, witnessed May 68 or documented prostitution. With a deeply humanistic approach, an innate sense of composition and a true ethic, Léon Herschtritt photographed France of the 60s. The world was changing, between the market of the Halles and the demonstrations against the war in Vietnam, between the mini-skirts and the Café de Flore, between the slums in La Courneuve and the Jardin du Luxembourg. In 1961, he went to Berlin to photograph the first Christmas with the Wall, a tragedy between illuminated Christmas trees and a snowman. In Africa, he went to document the end of the colonies for the photo library of the Ministry of Cooperation.... (http://www.loeildelaphotographie.com/en/2016/12/05/article/159929136/leon-herschtritt-a-life-for-photography-2/) undefined

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