Stefan Lorant attended the Academy of Economics in Budapest and then worked as a director, cameraman, and editor of films in Vienna and Berlin. From 1926 to 1933 he was editor in chief of the renowned Münchner Illustrierte Presse, where he did much to influence and develop the new field of photojournalism, which at that time had its most active practitioners and patrons in Germany. After a brief imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp, Lorant went in 1934 to England, where he helped create three of the country’s most popular illustrated periodicals—Weekly Illustrated (founder and editor, 1934), Lilliput (editor in chief, 1937–40), and Picture Post (1938–40). In addition to promoting the careers of such influential photographers as Felix Man, Alfred Eisenstaedt, and Robert Capa, he formulated many of the most basic precepts of the then-emerging profession of photojournalism. He believed that photojournalists should not arrange a picture but should instead record events exactly as they occur. An innovative magazine editor, he instituted picture layouts with photos contrasting in size and mood, set on facing pages, a practice that is now standard. He felt that images should be organized so that they tell a story and not appear just as a collection of snapshots.