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Albert Zander
German photographer
Albert Zander (1 January 1864 in Chodzież near Posen – 12 August 1897) was a German engineer, photographer and entrepreneur.[1] He was instrumental in the emergence of German tabloid journalism.[2]
As an engineer, he was initially employed by the Carl Flohr Berlin machine factory.[3][4] On 26 May 1895, Zander photographed a fire that broke out on the company premises. Two of his photographs of this event were published by the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung.[5]
Together with a partner, the merchant and photographer Siegmund Labisch, also from the Posen area, he founded the photo studio Zander & Labisch-Illustrations-Photographen in Berlin on 19 June 1895,[6] which developed into the first German photo agency to produce and distribute up-to-date photographs for press organs in the spirit of photo journalism.[7]
The photo studio developed considerably until Zander's early death: ten percent of all press photos published by the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung in 1897 came from Zander & Labisch.[8]
Zander died in Charlottenburg[9] at the age of 33.