the frontlines.

Umbo - Simultaneous portrait, 1929

Umbo - Cat, 1927

In 1928, he became one of the founding members of the agency Dephot (Deutscher Photo Service GmbH) where he was friends with Felix H. Man and Robert Capa. The agency was closed by the Nazis in 1933. During the 1940s, Umbo worked as a photojournalist for the magazine Signal, which reported from

wish to get trapped in after closing time. These books leave me with nothing but some indelible dreamy imagery, what Dalí called the deliquescent imponderable, and I find that even if I didn't like them I liked spending time in them. I always read them at night.

and you wish the author would help you connect them but then you let go, and take a little holiday from trying to make sense of the world. I like it even more when the ideas are phantasmagorical and unsettling so that the story feels like a museum of the strange, but the kind of museum you don’t