The FictionMags Index

Biographical Notes: Page 608

[Birnback Publishing Service] (items) (chron.)

Name of agency owned by Sidney Birnback.

[Photo Representatives] (fl. 1950s) (items) (chron.)

The Photo-Representatives agency was on 42nd St. in New York and existed from 1953 to 1959. They represented Weegee and about a dozen other photographers. The agency was founded by Anita Beer and Erika Klopfer, a photographer who was also known as Erika Stone (Wikipedia entry under that name). As a girl in Germany before the war she and her sister were friends with Traudl Junge, who was later Hitler’s private secretary.