Eva Rubinstein, MAN ON THE STREETS. DUBROVNIK, 1973

20.0 x 30.5 cm - black and white photograph, paper 20 x 30.5 cm - dimensions of the photograph frame

signed in ink under the frame l.: Man on the stairs | Dubrovnik 1973, p.: EwaRubinstein



The photograph of the stairs in Dubrovnik was taken by the author in 1973 during one of the several days she was there on business. Well, in 1970 she accepted an assignment from the "American Express" company to take a series of photos in various countries around the world for their "Annual Reports"; the photos were to be for the bank's management (company offices, etc.) and more touristic, landscape photos. She made the trip around the world to the designated locations in 23 days. When she was with a solo art trip in Italy in 1973 "American Express" somehow found out about it, they called and asked if she would go to Dubrovnik in Yugoslavia to take pictures for them there:

- "Of course I would! - I thought, I had never been there, but I knew it was a beautiful place, without cars like Venice. And of course it was: a beautiful, pink city, not big, you could easily walk so I carried four cameras to be able to take various photos, so for them needed for the assignment, but also for myself."

As for the photo of the stairs. The author recalls that she saw the light on those stairs, and knew it wouldn't last very long. But she was waiting for something or someone to add something to that light, some element, for something to happen, for there to be something more to the photo than a simple light on the stairs. And after a while she saw a man walking in the distance, bent over, approaching in that direction, and she thought:

- I beg you, come up and climb those stairs! And he "heard" me....

In Dubrovnik, Ms. Ewa then spent several days.

Wojciech Stanislaw Grochowalski, chairman of the board of the Artur Rubinstein International Music Foundation.



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Daughter of prominent pianist Artur Rubinstein and Aniela née Mlynarska. The family lived in Paris until 1939, then moved to the US, where Eva continued her ballet studies. She performed as a dancer and actress on Broadway stages. After years devoted to family life, she turned to photography in 1968. Initially treating it commercially, over time she devoted herself to artistic creation, in which she achieved considerable success. She had many exhibitions in galleries around the world, and published several albums, including one dedicated to her father's hometown: _x0084_Lodz. Brief Encounters_x0094_ (1998). She is one of the most famous and respected contemporary photographers.