Arnold Krupp
When Arnold Newman was asked by Newsweek magazine to photograph industrialist Alfred Krupp, he initially refused. He was repelled by the idea of photographing a man who had been prosecuted as a war criminal for using slave laborers in his factories during World War II and working tens of thousands of them to death. Eventually, Newman decided to take Krupp’s picture, but purposely staged the angle, lighting, and background of the photograph in such a way as to portray Krupp as malevolent. He considered this portrait of evil one of the most important photographs he ever took.
Credits
Arnold Newman / Masters / Getty Images.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 9.
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