# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eli-lotar
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:16:24.847Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eli-lotar"
name: "Eli Lotar"
slug: "eli-lotar"
description: "Eli Lotar was a French and Romanian photographer, cinematographer and film director. The eldest son of writer Tudor Arghezi, his mother was the schoolteacher and poet Constanța Zissu, who got pregnant with Arghezi when the latter was a monk in the Romanian Orthodox Church; Arghezi recognized him, and, upon being defrocked, married Zissu. Lotar was cared for by his father and stepmother in Bucharest, becoming a resentful and rebellious child. He was reunited with Constanța after the World War I division of Romania, when she took him to Iași. He then attended Saint Sava National College, but often ran away to rejoin Zissu. Upon her death, he still rejected Arghezi's tutelage, and, before the end of 1924, fled to Paris."
tagline: "French photographer (1905–1969)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Eli_Lotar_circa_1968.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1905-01-30"
deathDate: "1969-05-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.91
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.550865333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0521419/"
    handle:    "nm0521419"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C_%D9%84%D9%88%D9%B9%D8%B1"
    title: "ایلی لوٹر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%89_%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1"
    title: "الى لوتار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89li_Lotar"
    title: "Éli Lotar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Lotar"
    title: "Eli Lotar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Lotar"
    title: "Eli Lotar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89li_Lotar"
    title: "Éli Lotar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89li_Lotar"
    title: "Éli Lotar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Lotar"
    title: "Eli Lotar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AD%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB"
    title: "エリ・ロタール"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Lotar"
    title: "Eli Lotar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q769724"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump