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Lotte Jacobi

German-American photographer

Lotte Jacobi

Lotte Jacobi, self portrait, circa 1930.

Born

Johanna Alexandra "Lotte" Jacobi


(1896-08-17)August 17, 1896

Toruń, Prussia (today Poland)

DiedMay 6, 1990(1990-05-06) (aged 93)

Deering, New Hampshire

CitizenshipAmerican
EducationRoyal Academy (Poznań), Bavarian State Academy of Photography and the University of Munich
OccupationPhotographer
Known forPortrait photography
StyleHumanist photography
Spouse(s)Fritz Honig (m.1917, div.

1924), Erich Reiss (m. 1940, deceased in 1951)

ChildrenJohn Honig

LotteJacobi (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 Weimar: Lotte Jacobi LECYM