Roger Schall

1904 — 1995

Roger Schall was a French photographer and photojournalist who worked extensively within fashion and lifestyle. In 1931, Schall and his brother Raymond opened a studio in Paris, from 1934 being published many times in Vogue, including a report on the Jubilee of King George VI in the magazine's prestigious British edition. Schall took commissions from the Transatlantic Company and sailed to New York, publishing an account of the trip in the French pictorial magazine Vu. He would go on to cover the Olympic Games in 1936, in Hitler's Berlin, and was published in 1944 alongside several of his contemporaries, including Robert Doisneau, in the book Á Paris sous la botte des Nazis, a visual account of life during the Occupation. 

Schall continued to work for Vogue and Marie Claire, shoot portraits and nudes in his studio, and take commercial commissions for perfume brands such as Guerlain and Nina Ricci. He died in Paris, the city that had been his constant and greatest inspiration, in 1995.