Work of Carl Albrecht

On my very first blog post I mentioned that my love of photography (and art to be fair), was enhanced by the encouragement and invaluable help, and support from Uncle Carl Albrecht from New Jersey. I was encouraged to start writing to him by my parents, as they were quite worried about his failing health and being a new but budding photographer, they thought we would get along just fine ...! It was great actually, I used to write pages to Uncle Carl and in return would get lengthy letters back, often accompanied by items such as a light meter, filters and even a twin lens reflex camera! We developed a lovely friendship - he was only too pleased to write to his late wife's neice and encourage and support, and then took over all my film developing and printing!

So I was delighted today to find some of his work - original American magazine articles, both pre and post war, featuring his photographs, along with a few other photographs and designs he had had published. I thought I'd share them here - a tribute to my Uncle Carl - who I will always be so grateful to.

Uncle Carl in the 1950's

This is one of Carl's published photographs - of my Aunt Sylvia - she was quite an artist herself!

More published work - this was in Harper's Bazaar, October 1937

Pre-war photo

More published work- pre war

1956 - c0ver of Pace College Magazine - Seal designed by Carl when he was Director of Art at the College