Werner Rosenberg
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Werner Rosenberg (1913-1988) known as Véro, was a German-born French photographer and photojournalist.
Werner Rosenberg was a Jewish German. From the age of fifteen he became a passionate devotee of photography.
In 1933, he went to Paris, though his parents refused to accompany him. There he made his living from photography, producing portraits and industrial photographs, and contributing to Vu magazine (1928-1940), under the pseudonym 'Véro'. He was made a naturalized French citizen in 1939.
War years
During WW2 and the German occupation of France he joined the Catholic resistance movement Compagnons de France (the 'Companions of France')[1] and assumed the identity 'Michel Thibault' to protect himself. Denounced in 1943, he was forced to hide in the countryside around Isère.
After the war, he returned to live with his family in Paris as a freelance photographer, providing illustrations and reports for the Catholic press.[2]
In 1955 his softly backlit photograph of a woman and children dancing in a ring under a glade of saplings in late afternoon light was selected by Edward Steichen for the world-touring exhibition The Family of Man that he curated for the Museum of Modern Art, and that was seen by 9 million visitors.[3]