Eli Lothar French Eliazar Lotar Teodorescu was the son of Romanian parents and arrived in Paris in. He learned photography from Germaine Krull who introduced him to the Surrealist circle. Lotar published in various avantgarde magazines such as Vu or Jazz. He exhibited at exhibitions such as Fotographie der Gegenwart Fifo Salon de lAraignée etc. After his initial training with Krull Lotar began to dominate the imaginary of modernist Europe. Pierr Bost says that this photographer dedicated himself to discovering the unfamiliar in the familiar.
Eli Lothar He made a photographic series e-commerce photo editing to illustrate the word abattoir slaughterhouse in the Dictionary section of the publication Documents by Georges Batailles. The result is of a strange realism where everyday life and death collide. Eli Lotar The Slaughterhouse AbattoirEli Lotar The Slaughterhouse AbattoirEli Lotar The Slaughterhouse AbattoirEli Lotar The Slaughterhouse Abattoir Eli Lotar The Slaughterhouse Abattoir Eli Lotars work is both documentary and representative of surrealism.
It shows injustice and poverty hand in hand with industrial progress and its repercussions on everyday life. Between and he devoted himself intensely to photography where he captured the Parisian landscape and its surroundings. He is interested in the objects of everyday life planes ships trains tracks etc. In he participated in documentary productions with filmmakers such as and Luis Buñuel with whom he collaborated again in in the controversial documentary Las Tierra sin pan.