- 1892, June 27
Cami Stone is born as Wilhelmine Camille Honorine Schammelhout in Vilvoorde, Belgium. - 1895, December 16
Sasha Stone is born as Aleksander Serge Steinsapir in Saint Petersburg, Russia. - 1913
Sasha runs a small art metalworking business in New York called Alexander Stone, having previously worked for the sculptor Hunt Diederich. - 1914-1918 First World War
Sasha takes his first photographs and is recruited into the British Army as a co-pilot and aviation instructor. - 1916
The intellectual and artistic Dada movement emerged in Zurich under the impetus of Tristan Tzara. - Around 1918,
Sasha studied drawing and painting at a school in Bellevue, near Paris. He set up a small sculpture workshop. - 1918
Cami moves to New York, where she starts an import-export company. - 1918-1933
The Weimar Republic, a new political regime, emerges in Germany. - 1919
Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus, a school for architecture and applied arts, in Weimar, Germany. - Around 1920,
the New Objectivity artistic movement emerged. The first official exhibition was organized in 1925 at the Kunsthalle in Mannheim, Germany. The New Photography artistic movement emerged, based on the principles of the Bauhaus. - 1920, June-July:
The first international Dada salon takes place in Berlin, with John Heartfield as the official photomontage artist. Around 1921,
Sasha moves to Berlin, where he studies with the sculptor Alexander Archipenko. - 1924
Cami and Sasha Stone met and founded Atelier Stone, dedicated to photography, at Kurfürstenstrasse 13 in Berlin. The Stones exhibited their photographs at the Große Berliner Kunstausstellung, in the Novembergruppe section, and at the Jury-free Kunstschau in Berlin. - 1925
László Moholy-Nagy publishes the book Malerei, Photography, Film. - 1925-1926
The Stones appear to work exclusively with the German publisher Ullstein, which publishes titles such as Uhu, Die Dame and Der Querschnitt.TIMES - 1927
The Stone are moving to a new, larger studio at Kaiserin-Augusta-Strasse 69. - 1928
Sasha exhibits at the first Salon indépendant de la photographie in Paris together with Berenice Abbott, Germaine Krull, André Kertész, Man Ray and Eugène Atget. - 1929
Cami and Sasha are participating in the exhibition "Fotografie der Gegenwart" (Photography of the Gegenwart) in Essen and Berlin. Along with Umbo, Heartfield, Lersky, and Moholy-Nagy, the Stones are participating in the International Exhibition of the German Film and Photo Federation (FiFo) in Stuttgart and Berlin. - 1929
Man Ray and Lee Miller perfected solarization in photography. Simultaneously with the FIFo, Werner Gräff published "Es kommt der neue Fotograf!" (Es Kommt der neue Fotograf!), in which he outlined the most important principles of the photographic avant-garde, illustrated with images from the Stone. - 1930
The Stones are participating in three exhibitions in Germany, including Das Lichtbild in Munich. - September 1931:
The Stones move from Berlin to Brussels. Between 1931 and 1939, they live successively at 18 Napelsstraat (Cami's family home), 278 Kroonlaan, and 43 Charleroise Steenweg. 'Studio Stone' opens. - 1931
The German philosopher Walter Benjamin, a friend of Sasha Stone, publishes Kleine Geschichte der Photographie, in which he quotes Sasha. - 1932, October
De Stone participates in the National and International Photography Exhibition at Fotoclub Vooruit in Ghent, together with François Kollar and László Moholy-Nagy. - 1932, November 27
The Stones make some of the election posters for the Belgian Workers' Party. - 1932, July:
The International Exhibition of Photography takes place at the Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels. Cami, along with Victor Hennebert, represents the Belgian section. - 1932, November 27
During the Belgian parliamentary elections, the Belgian Catholic Party wins, closely followed by the Belgian Workers' Party - 1933, June
The Stone exhibit the series 'Nus' (nudes) at the Maison d'Art in Brussels. - 1933, June–July,
International Exhibition of Photography and Cinema at the Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels. De Stone presented two "photographic panels." - January 1933
Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany. - May 24, 1936,
during the Belgian parliamentary elections, the Belgian Workers' Party received the most votes. - In early 1939,
Cami and Sasha split and closed down Studio Stone. - 1939
Cami marries José Stork, an employee of Studio Stone. Sasha marries Dutch woman Lydia Edens. - 1940, May 1940:
Sasha, a Jewish woman, flees the German advance with Lydia, their son Serge (born 1939), and Michelline de Keuwer, the studio secretary. They settle in Villelongue-de-la-Salanque near Perpignan, France. On August 6, Sasha dies in the Perpignan hospital of pulmonary tuberculosis. - 1940
Lydia Edens and Serge flee to the Netherlands. - 1939-1945
World War II: During the war, Cami continues to work as an independent photographer - 1948
Cami opened the Photo Jeunesse photo shop in Brussels. She bought and sold photographic equipment and art photographs. The shop closed in the early 1950s. - 1975, March 3
Cami Stone dies after working the last years of her life as a secretary for a medical-social service for foreigners in Belgium
For information for this timeline, see especially KERBS D., MAASWINKEL P., 'Sasha Stone. Randbemerkungen zum Lebensweg und Lebensende eines statenlosen Fotojournalists', in Fotogeschichte, 1990, no. 37, p. 37-53; HAMMERS B., Sasha Stone sieht noch mehr. Ein Fotograf zwischen Kunst und Kommerz, Petersberg, Michael Imhof Verlag, 2014.
