Aurel Bauh, fotograful uitat al avangardei românești

Aurel Bauh, a Romanian photographer, was born in Craiova in the 1900s and moved to Paris in the 1920s. He worked alongside notable figures like Man Ray and André Kertész, later returning to Bucharest to establish a studio that became a hub for Romanian avant-garde art. Bauh's works are preserved in major museums like Centre Pompidou and MoMA. His original name was Bauch, but he changed it to avoid negative connotations in post-WWI France. Despite his significant contributions, much of his early biography remains unclear, and the fate of his original negatives is largely unknown. His photography blurred the lines between commercial and artistic work, exemplified by his 1950 piece for a pasta brand, which is also in the Centre Pompidou collection.