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Lotte Jacobi (1896-1990); Four Photographs, including: Alfred Stieglitz; image 1
Lotte Jacobi (1896-1990); Four Photographs, including: Alfred Stieglitz; image 2
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Lotte Jacobi
(1896-1990)
Four Photographs, including: Alfred Stieglitz

11 – 21 September 2023, 12:00 EDT
Skinner Marlborough, Massachusetts

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Lotte Jacobi (1896-1990)

Four Photographs, including: Alfred Stieglitz,
Simone de Beauvoir, Photogenic in Honor of Brancusi's "Bird in Flight", and Lieselotte Felger as "Die Wespentaille" in the Dance "Der Kreisel," Berlin. Gelatin silver prints on postcard stock; each signed 'Lotte Jacobi' in pencil lower right; framed.
each 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. (14.0 x 8.9 cm) or reverse

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Lotte Jacobi comes from a long line of photographers in her family that spans the history of photography. She is a fourth-generation photographer whose great grandfather studied under Louis Daguerre. She made her first photograph with a pinhole camera as a twelve-year-old and ran the family's Berlin portrait studio in the 1930s.

With the rise of Nazi Germany, Jacobi immigrated to America and opened a portrait studio in New York. Known for engaging and informal portraits of cultural figures, Jacobi describes her method in the following: "I just try to get people to talk, to relax, to be themselves. I don't like a passive, bored subject. I do portraits because I like people, and I want to bring out their personalities."

Jacobi's experimental and abstract photographs are sought after equally as much as her portraits. Many of these are printed on postcard stock, which she signed and shared as an expression of friendship.

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