Stefan Moses (29 August 1928 – 3 February 2018)[1] was a German photographer living in Munich.
Born in Legnica, Province of Lower Silesia, Moses was forced to leave school in 1943 because of his Jewish heritage and survived a forced labour camp.
[2] After training as a photographer in Wrocław shortly after the end of World War II, he worked as a theatre photographer at the Deutsches Nationaltheater und Staatskapelle Weimar.
Moses took people out of their working environment and photographed them in front of a grey linen cloth - thus creating contemporary documents.
Stefan Moses also created portraits of numerous personalities such as Thomas Mann, Ilse Aichinger, Erich Kästner, Peggy Guggenheim, Theodor W. Adorno, Otto Dix, Max Frisch or Martin Mayer.