Adolfo Komenski was an extremely good photographer. He started doing it in the war and he went on afterwards. His photography of people in the street or scenes in France particularly in Paris warmed his heart as opposed to depressing him. In a sense these lives too he was rescuing from oblivion just as he had rescued lives from oblivion and death with his gorgeous equipment.
The global elite’s annual Alpine jamboree may have lost some of its convening power, our editor-in-chief says, but the many encounters it enables still have enormous value. Our correspondent considers what the closing of Noma, a legendary Danish restaurant, means for the world of fine dining. And remembering Adolfo Kaminsky, whose expertly forged documents saved thousands of Jews’ lives.
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