post force camera many portraits of albert einstein are well known but to the stay photographer fred stein remains largely unknown his son peter hopes to change that he's brought stein's photos to his birthplace traced and i'm just really thrilled about this exhibition is in place and it's. really my father is coming home to waste as the son of a rabbi fred stein fled the nazis to paris in one nine hundred thirty three there as an unemployed lawyer he began taking photos with his wedding present i like a camera he took it with him everywhere capturing street scenes from paris and later after fleeing again in new york. but up until his death in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven stein never achieved success with his images. before. it was before the value of photography. and galleries were created exclusively for photography and photos were displays in museums. he. started sun is convinced that the unknown photographers openness played a key role in getting so many famous people to pose for him. and albert einstein had a ten minute appointment to see him and einstein secretary saying oh