Az első kolozsvári kapitalista a kommunizmusban: Klein András fotóművész
Photographer Andrei Klein: the fi rst “capitalist” entrepreneur in Cluj city’s communist years
Author(s): László CsibiSubject(s): History, Communication studies, Social history, History of Antisemitism
Published by: Medea Egyesület
Keywords: The Holocaust; Mohyliv Camp; Romanian Jews; photography; artists; photo labs; Communism; Romania; Transylvania; Cluj; businessmen in Communism; Andrei Klein; Dénes Szabó; “Fotofi lm” Studio;
Summary/Abstract: Photographer, artist, and art collector, Holocaust survivor Andrei Klein was born in 1942 in the Mohyliv Camp (in today’s Ukraine). He grew up in Romana and in 1970, he relocated to Israel. Following the political changes of 1990, he returned to Romania. Andrei Klein started his career in the 1960s under the guidance of photography artist Dénes Szabó in a studio called “Fotofi lm”, which was famous at the time in Cluj city. At the end of the 1960s, Andrei Klein began to do fi lm processing work in the little shop “Foto” in Cluj under a specifi c business licence that was extremely rare in those times in Romania, which off ered him a particular status similar to that of an entrepreneur.
Journal: ME.DOK Média-Történet-Kommunikáció
- Issue Year: XVI/2021
- Issue No: 4
- Page Range: 35-51
- Page Count: 16
- Language: Hungarian