11 March 1900 – 10 August 1982, was an Australian-born American fashion and advertising photographer. Born in Hawker, South Australia, to German immigrant parents, he trained initially as an electrical engineer before moving to the United States in 1919. Already an amateur photographer, he studied with Clarence H. White in 1923 and later assisted and taught at White’s school.

In the mid-1920s he established a studio in New York, working first in collaboration with Ralph Steiner and later with his brother Martin Bruehl. His photographs appeared in leading magazines such as Vogue and Vanity Fair, and he became known for advertising, fashion, and celebrity portraiture. During the 1930s he developed color photography in collaboration with Fernand Bourges, contributing to a process that enabled regular color reproduction in Condé Nast publications.

Alongside commercial work, he produced independent photographic projects, notably the photobook Photographs of Mexico (1933), which documented everyday life in Mexican towns. His work was widely exhibited, including at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and he received multiple awards for his advertising photography. He remained active in his New York studio until his retirement in 1966.

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