# @gettyimages on Instagram

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- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16446487-gettyimages-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2020-03-20T12:02:59.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Getty Images (@GettyImages) — https://gondola.cc/GettyImages

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Born in Vienna, photographer Gerti Deutsch was influenced by avant-garde movements that saw the medium flourish in Europe & Russia between the wars. Joining the great number of Jewish & intellectual talents forced to flee the continent as the Nazis gained power in the 1930s, the impact that this émigré community had on British & American culture was boundless. ⁠⠀
Deutsch, whose early work in Austria included large-format portraiture, exquisitely-printed landscapes & candid street photography, soon established her own photo studio in London. Stylistically dexterous, she also pursued editorial photography, working with 35mm & 120mm film. ⁠⠀
1938 saw the launch of Picture Post, the photo-essay magazine which was to herald a new age of photojournalism within the UK, under the editorship of Hungarian Stefan Lorant. Along with staffers Kurt Hutton & Felix Man, and contributors such as Bill Brandt & Brassaï, Deutsch published her first story, ‘Their First Day in England’, in December of that year. Photographing the evacuated ‘Kindertransport’ children arriving in Dover, the trust with which the children regard Deutsch – herself an “outsider” in an adopted land – produced images a world apart from the anxious, exhausted faces found in other press coverage of the event.
Deutsch, like her female peers at the magazine, was often delegated those assignments that considered the welfare of children, women & family throughout the war. Unlike many of her contemporaries, she resisted staged shots, however collaborative, and brought a discretion & inventive, foregrounding quality to humanist photography.⁠⠀
Following the demise of Picture Post in 1957, Deutsch continued to shoot for the weeklies, retiring when the rise of colour supplement-driven photography & the masculine scene of the 1960s proved unworkable.⁠⠀
Here, we share: a Cambridge University bedmaker, 1939; Kindertransport, 1938; post-war Vienna; fostered children, 1948; Joseph Szigeti, 1947; a London nursery, 1945, and a parenting class in 1939.⁠⠀
📷: Gerti Deutsch/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images | gettyarchive | #GettyImages25 #PreservingThePast #GettyArchive | #womenshistorymonth #gertideutsch

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