Eli Lotar
1905 – 1969
TECNICCIAN BIOGRAPHY
Eli Lotar (January 30, 1905 – February 22, 1969) was a French photographer and cinematographer.
Lotar (full name Eliazar Lotar Theodoresco) was born in Paris, the son of Tudor Arghezi, a Romanian poet, and Constan?a Zissu, a teacher. He became a French citizen in 1926 and met the German photographer Germaine Krull. He took part in many exhibitions with Krull and photographer André Kertész.
Lotar also frequented cinematic and theatrical circles, through which he met filmmakers René Clair and Luis Buñuel, theater director Antonin Artaud and playwright Roger Vitrac. A member of the Groupe Octobre, Lotar worked with filmmakers such as Jacques Brunius, Joris Ivens, Jean Painlevé, and Jean Renoir, as a set photographer or as a cameraman.