Lotte Jacobi was a leading German-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...
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Atelier Jacobi: Sigismund Jacobi (1860-1935) c. 1906. Portrait of the author Franz Kafka by Lotte Jacobi's father.
Lotte Jacobi. 1951. Photo of J. D. Salinger in one of Jacobi's more traditional portraits. The image was used for the first-edition back cover of The Catcher in the Rye.
The photo in contextAwards 2
Connected to Lotte 6
Catherine OpieAlso won Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award
Horst FaasAlso won Dr. Erich Salomon Prize
Nancy SperoAlso won Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award
Cristina García RoderoAlso won Dr. Erich Salomon Prize
Elizabeth MurrayAlso won Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award
Anders PetersenAlso won Dr. Erich Salomon PrizeAbout this person
Lotte Jacobi was a leading German-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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