Lotte Jacobi: Photographs

by Lotte Jacobi (Photographer), Peter Moriarty (Introduction)

The life and art of Lotte Jacobi.

92 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2002

Reviews

[Godine Publisher & Black Sparrow Press · Rating 5 out of 5]

As is the case with most books published by Godine, this book about photographer Jacobi is a pleasure to hold and to read. The text by Peter Moriarty traces the career of Jacobi from its beginning in Weimar Germany to its end in New Hampshire. Jacobi had a long and productive life and career. She was the child of 19th-century Prussian-Jewish parents. Photography was the family's business; her great-grandfather had met Daguerre. Jacobi took over her father's Berlin studio in 1927, photographing many of the key figures of Weimar culture. Several of her subjects were imprisoned and later murdered by the Nazis. Jacobi immigrated to New York in 1935, opening her own studio and becoming a member of Stieglitz's circle of friends. Her work was not limited to portraits; Jacobi experimented with photogenic drawings created by drawing on photographic paper with a pen light. Neither Newhall nor Gernsheim included her work in their seminal histories of photography. A mentor to many important photographers including Minor White and Paul Caponigro and an important photographer herself, Jacobi is finally receiving the attention she deserves.
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