Vogue Photographer Erwin Blumenfeld—Pictures of a Fashion Legend (PHOTOS)
He was one of the most highly-paid, and lauded, fashion photographers of the 1950s. Here are some of the most beautiful pictures taken by Erwin Blumenfeld

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Self portrait, 1937
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Lisa Fonssagrives, The Eiffel Tower, Paris, 1939
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Lisette behind fluted Glass, 1943
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Untitled, 1944
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Untitled, 1946
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Evelyn Tripp in Dior, 1949
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Jean Patchett, The Doe Eye Vogue cover, 1950
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Three Profiles, 1952
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Décolleté, 1952
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Audrey Hepburn, 1952
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Nancy Berg in Cadillac ad, 1954
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Grace Kelly wearing Oleg Cassini for Cosmopolitan magazine, 1955
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