Schonfeld, Nicolás

Nicolás Schonfeld was born in 1901 and passed away in Buenos Aires in 1977. He arrived in Argentina in 1930, and in 1932, he set up his studio in Buenos Aires. Schonfeld was the preferred photographer of numerous figures in the artistic sphere. His studio operated until 1975. His photographs appeared in magazines such as "Caras y Caretas" and "El Hogar." According to Sara Facio, the photographer "was another portraitist of Argentine high society. He came to Buenos Aires and dedicated himself to photography," she said, "because he did not know how to speak Spanish, adopting the proverbial slogan 'photography is a language without borders.'"

In addition to ladies and 'social' photos, Schonfeld photographed other personalities. His archive includes Federico García Lorca (1936), Pablo Casals (1937), and popular figures like Blackie (1936), Mecha Ortiz (1933), and Florencio Parravicini (1940). A very successful series was the one he did of Victoria Ocampo in the 1940s. One of those shots is a paradigmatic image of the writer. It has been published on several covers of her books and is a symbolic image that affirms Schonfeld's mastery in the art of portraiture.