Sasha Stone. a Berlin photographer from Russia (and New York)

Sasha Stone, born Aleksander Steinsapir in Saint Petersburg, Russia (1895 – 1940) was a successful photographer, working closely with his Belgian wife, Cami Stone (born Wilhelmine Schammelhout), a photographer too.

 

An engineer, he emigrated to New York and served in the U.S.Army during WWI. He then lived in Paris, Berlin and Brussels. His work was published in German magazines like Die Form, UHU, Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung, Der Querschnitt and Die Dame.

 

The photos in this post appeared in the book Berlin in Bildern, 1929, Epstein Verlag. 

Website: http://www.fulltable.com/VTS/b/berlin/01/x.htm

 

In 1940, Sasha and his family fled to France and tried to reach Spain. But on August 6, 1940, Sasha died in Perpignan due to a serious illness. Incidentally, the writer and philosopher Walter Benjamin, one of whose books Sasha had illustrated in 1928, died a month later at Port-Bou, not far from Perpignan, trying to escape he too the Nazi occupation of France. 

Photographer Cami Stone