Cami Stone

Cami Stone (born Wilhelmine Camille Honorine Schammelhout; June 27, 1892 – March 3, 1975) was a Belgian photographer. She had a certain notoriety in the Berlin of the 1920s, then in Brussels. She was invited to participate in the famous Film und Foto exhibition in Stuttgart in 1929. After her work was rediscovered, her photographs were put up for sale in major auction houses.

Biography Camille Honorine Schammelhout was born in Vilvoorde, Belgium, in 1892. She died in 1975 at the age of 83. During the First World War, she lived in La Haye and London, where her boyfriend, Sasha Stone, a member of the US army met in New York , was stationed . In 1918, she ran an import-export business in New York. She married him in Berlin in 1922, where they settled in 1918 She portrayed many personalities of the time such as Albert Einstein, Anna Sten, Lou Albert-Lasard, and Erwin Piscator. She was invited to the historic Film und Foto exhibition in 1929 in Stuttgart where her works were massively exhibited. and containing 25 original silver gelatin prints each. These nude studies are part of the straight photography movement. Some Cami Stone prints are signed "Cami Stone", others "Stone" or even "S. Stone" (her husband's initials). All of these prints have the copyright stamp of Cami Stone on the back. The most frequently presented nude study from this portfolio is "Plate 13" by Cami Stone. Sasha and Cami divorced in 1939.

Over 800 photos by the Atelier Stone that were mostly made in Berlin between 1925 and 1930 reappeared in the early 2000s. Protected by Cami Stone's family during the Second World War, the photographs found are unique: the glass plate negatives no longer exist, as Cami Stone had to sell them after the war to recover the silver salts.