Claudio Edinger

Quick Facts

Full Name	Claudio Edinger
Occupation	Photographer
Date Of Birth	May 3, 1952(1952-05-03)
Age	72
Country	Brazil
Birth City	Rio de Janeiro
Horoscope	Taurus

Claudio Edinger Biography

Claudio Edinger is one of the most popular and richest Photographer who was born on May 3, 1952 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Claudio Edinger was born in Rio de Janeiro in May 1952. Before his second birthday, his family relocated into Sao Paulo. He’s stated that in his head, he often believed that his soul is located in Sao Paulo and his heart was in Rio. This love for both cities is evident, he believes, in his photos of the two cities.

Edinger was a student of economics during his time at Mackenzie University in Sao Paulo, Brazil. In the same year when he was in the early part of the Seventies Edinger began to take photographs. In 1975, he held his first solo exhibition in the Sao Paulo Museum of Art which included photos taken of the Martinelli Building, which is a vertical slum that was located in the center of Sao Paulo. In the following year, he relocated in New York City and lived there until 1996.

In order to widen his knowledge of the world and to try to examine his own roots, Edinger left Brazil for New York, which was then the heart and center of the photographic world. Edinger chose to live among and photograph the Hassidic Jews of Brooklyn. In a series of startling black and white photographs taken over two years, Edinger was able to capture a broad portrait of the traditions and joys of the Hassidic community. After being introduced to Cornell Capa by Philippe Halsman in 1978, he was invited to exhibit his depiction of Brooklyn’s Hassidic life at the International Center of Photography.

In 1978 after two years photographing the Hassidic Jews in Brooklyn, Edinger had an individual exhibit “Hassidic Jews” at the International Center of Photography in New York. From 1979 to 1994 Edinger taught classes at Parson’s/New School for Social Research and at the International Center of Photography (1992–1994).

The first photo series by Edinger began in the year 1975 when he decided to study his first photograph of the Martinelli Building in Sao Paulo the city he grew up in. At one point, it was believed that the Martinelli was the highest and most luxurious apartment structure located in Sao Paulo. The Martinelli was the tallest and most exclusive apartment building in Sao Paulo. Edinger was writing his (photographic) piece about the Building it had been transformed into a vertical slum. By looking at a subject in detail, Edinger had set the model of his aesthetic, which the camera could be used to study in depth , which resulted in more than 13 books on specific subjects.

Claudio Edinger Net Worth

Claudio Edinger is one of the richest Photographer from Brazil. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Claudio Edinger 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Claudio Edinger is a Brazilian photographer, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1952. He was a resident of New York from 1976 to 1996.

After his time in Brooklyn after which he relocated to the historical Chelsea Hotel, a Bohemian or, for lack of a more appropriate term, oasis where many famous people from the fields of the arts and the eccentric decided to reside on the move or for a long time. The many residents at some point and in another way, there were a number of artists who had studios in the hotel and musicians like Bob Dylan, Virgil Thompson, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, who stayed in the hotel. Edinger captured in dramatic intimate portraits of the famous and also those eccentric characters who weren’t to be famous, but who lived in that world in the Chelsea Hotel in the late 1970s. The portrait series resulted in his first major scale collection, “Chelsea Hotel” published by Abbeville Press in 1983. The book, which was his first that was solely portraits, was a milestone in examining the diversity of individuals with the same thing they shared, their home in Chelsea Hotel. Chelsea Hotel. This book was a classic photograph document of the late 70’s and the early 80’s.

Throughout the 20 years he spent in the United States, Edinger developed personal photographic essays. He also worked as a freelance photographer for Brazilian and North American newspapers and magazines such as Veja, Time, Newsweek, Life, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, The New York Times Magazine, among many others. In 1977 he studied with Philippe Halsman (1906–1979), the great master portraitist.

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Between 1994 and 1996, Claudio photographed the old part of Havana, Cuba. Old Havana was published in 1997 by Dewi Lewis, Edition Stemmle, DBA and DAP. That same year the book was named by American Photo as one of the best books of the year.

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Claudio Ranked on the list of most popular Photographer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Brazil. Claudio Edinger celebrates birthday on May 3 of every year.

This prepared him for his return to Brazil to confront through his photography, in the year 2000, the city of Rio where he was born. There, through his camera, this time using a large format Sinar 4 x 5 and black and white film, the ambiguity of spaces in large cities that he first found in New York is realized. What emerges is a very personal series of photos that excite the viewer as well as the photographer showing the connection to his subject matter in the most intimate and poetic way. Working with selective focus and a large format camera Edinger’s work has evolved into a somewhat surreal study that one art critic has called the invention of neo-espressionism in photography. It is one of the most personal statements by a photographer now practicing his art.