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Lotte Jacobi

Other: Lotte Johnanna Jacobi
Other: Lotte Johanna Alexandra Jacobi Reiss

Born: 1896, 17 August - Germany [West Prussia], Thorn - [now Poland, Torun]
Died: 1990, 6 May
Gender: Female
Active: US

Portraits of celebrities. She also carried out experimental work on cameraless abstract images that she called photogenics.

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Lotte Jacobi, 1930 (taken) 1970s (print), Self portrait of Lotte Jacobi, Gelatin silver print, Private collection of Fostin Cotchen, LL/54953

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Lotte Jacobi (August 17, 1896 - May 6, 1990) was a leading American portrait photographer and photojournalist, known for her high-contrast black-and-white portrait photography, characterized by intimate, sometimes dramatic, sometimes idiosyncratic and often definitive humanist depictions of both ordinary people in the United States and Europe and some of the most important artists, thinkers and activists of the 20th century.

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