Walter Nurnberg

Nurnberg, Walter (1907-1991), German-born British photographer. Brought up in Berlin, he originally hoped to be a musician, but gravitated towards advertising. He began studying photography in 1930 and, after emigrating in 1933, opened an advertising studio in London. His first big assignment was to advertise GPO greetings telegrams. Later he joined Kraszna-Krausz's stable of writers at the Focal Press. Ultimately, however, he became one of post-war Britain's outstanding industrial photographers, applying a modernistic, sometimes abstract vision to the representation of objects and processes. His book Lighting for Photography: Means and Methods, first published in 1940, remains a classic.

— Robin Lenman

Bibliography

• Ward, J., ‘The Walter Nurnberg Photograph Collection at the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford’, in B. Finn (ed.), Presenting Pictures (2004)