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Cami Stone
Portrait of Cami Stone by Sasha Stone, 1929
Born
Camille Honorine Schammelhout

1892
Vilvoorde, Belgium
Died1975 (aged 82–83)
Amsterdam, Netherlands
NationalityBelgian
Known forPhotography
SpouseSasha Stone (photographer)

Cami Stone (born Camille Honorine Schammelhout; 1892–1975) was a Belgian photographer. She had a certain notoriety in the Berlin of the 1920s, then in Brussels. She was invited to participate in the famous Film und Foto exhibition in Stuttgart in 1929. After her work was rediscovered, her photographs were put up for sale in major auction houses.[1][2][3][4]

Biography

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Camille Honorine Schammelhout was born in Vilvoorde, Belgium, in 1892.[5] She died in 1975 [5] in Amsterdam (Netherlands) ,[6] at the age of 83. During the First World War, she lived in La Haye and London where her boyfriend, Sasha Stone, a member of the US army met in New York ,[7] was stationed .[8] In 1918, she ran an import-export business in New York.[5]

In Paris, she was introduced to photography by Stone.[9] She married him in Berlin in 1922, where they settled in 1918 [8] In 1928, Cami and Sasha opened the Atelier Stone, which produced architectural and advertising photographs.[5] Stone is one of the most important photographers of the Weimar Republic.[10] She portrayed many personalities of the time such as Albert Einstein,[11] Anna Sten,[12] Lou Albert-Lasard,[13] and Erwin Piscator.[14] She was invited to the historic Film und Foto exhibition in 1929 in Stuttgart where her works were massively exhibited.[10][7][5] This places her photographs in the modernist movement of the Neues Sehen (new vision).

A woman in rear wheel on a motorcycle in the twenties in Germany
In Germany during the Weimar Republic, probably before 1925

As Nazism progressed in Germany, the Atelier Stone was transferred to Brussels in 1931[8][7][6] (Sasha Stone parents were Jews from Russia [9]). She took industrial photographs and portraits of artists for the opera house La Monnaie. She also practiced film set photography for Henri Storck and Joris Ivens.[7]

Stone practiced studio photography in Brussels. She composed nudes that can be found in the portfolio "25 NUES FEMMES DE SASHA STONE" printed in 100 numbered copies;[15] and containing 25 original silver gelatin prints each.[16] These nude studies are part of the straight photography movement. Some Cami Stone prints are signed "Cami Stone";,[3] others "Stone" [17] or even "S. Stone" (her husband's initial).[18] All of these prints have the copyright stamp of Cami Stone on the back. The most frequently presented nude study from this portfolio is "Plate 13" by Cami Stone.[19] Sasha and Cami divorced in 1939.[9][20]

Over 800 photos by the Atelier Stone that were mostly made in Berlin between 1925 and 1930, reappeared in the early 2000s. Protected by Cami Stone's family during the Second World War, the photographs found are unique: the glass plate negatives no longer exist as Cami Stone had to sell them after the war to recover the silver salts.[10]

References

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  1. ^ "Cami Stone". Artnet.
  2. ^ "Cami Stone". Sothebys. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
  3. ^ a b "Nude, 1930s". Christies.
  4. ^ "Cami Stone (1898-1975) Nu de la série Femmes, c. 1932". Drouot. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
  5. ^ a b c d e "Cami Stone | Object:Photo | MoMA". MoMA (Museum of Modern Art). Retrieved 21 January 2023.
  6. ^ a b "Cami Stone (1898-1975)". Bibliothèque Nationale de France (in French). Retrieved 21 January 2023.
  7. ^ a b c d Rokeghem, Suzanne van; Aubenas, Jacqueline; Vercheval-Vervoort, Jeanne (2006). Des femmes dans l'histoire en Belgique, depuis 1830 (in French). Luc Pire Editions. p. 276. ISBN 978-2-87415-523-9.
  8. ^ a b c "Sasha Stone | Object:Photo | MoMA". MoMA (Museum of Modern Art). Retrieved 21 January 2023.
  9. ^ a b c Holzer, Anton (1990). "Contributions to the History and Aesthetics of Photography". Photo Story (37): 37–53.
  10. ^ a b c "The exceptional auction sell of the photographic fund of Cami and Sasha Stone". Photography-now : Events (in French and English). Retrieved 21 January 2023.
  11. ^ "Albert Einstein by Cami Stone, 1930". Artnet. Retrieved 21 January 2023.
  12. ^ "Anna Sten by Cami Stone, 1930". Artnet. Retrieved 21 January 2023.
  13. ^ "Lou Albert-Lasard by Cami Stone, 1927–1928". Artnet. Retrieved 21 January 2023.
  14. ^ "Cami Stone : Photomontage of Erwin Piscator and the Nollendorf Theatre, 1929". Artnet. Retrieved 21 January 2023.
  15. ^ "'25 Nus Femmes'". Sothebys.
  16. ^ Bernaerts Auctioneers 'Sasha Stone - 25 Nus Femmes', retrieved 21 January 2023
  17. ^ "Gros plan de Chantal Quenneville, à la pipe, 1929". Lot-Art.
  18. ^ "Hande am Klavier". Sothebys.
  19. ^ "Plate 13 from "25 nues femmes de Sasha Stone"". Sothebys. Retrieved 21 January 2023.
  20. ^ "Artist Chronology : Sasha Stone". MoMA (Museum of Modern Art).
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