“In one photograph from 1958, a boy studies a book in a one-room schoolhouse in tiny Peacham, Vermont,” writes Bryan Marquard in Wednesday’s (6/20) Boston Globe. “A couple of years later, three masters of classical music fill the photographer’s frame: cellist Pablo Casals, conductor Alexander Schneider, and pianist Rudolf Serkin, their intense expressions forming a visual musical trio. Clemens Kalischer photographed both scenes during a career that … produced scores of unforgettable images, including immigrants arriving by ship in New York City [and] musicians at a festival in Marlboro, Vt. … Mr. Kalischer … was 97 when he died June 9. He had been living in Lenox [Mass.] and had settled in that area in 1951 after leaving New York City, where he had lived as an immigrant who had fled the rise of Nazism, and then imprisonment in Europe…. Mr. Kalischer’s photographs appeared in 1955 as part of Edward Steichen’s famous ‘The Family of Man’ exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. By then he had moved to Stockbridge, where in 1965 he opened the Image Gallery…. Along with pursuing photo assignments, publishing books, staging exhibitions, and running his gallery, Mr. Kalischer taught at places including Williams College and Berkshire Community College.”
Posted June 22, 2018
