Lotte Jacobi 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.
Lotte Jacobi, self portrait, circa 1930.
Atelier Jacobi: Sigismund Jacobi (1860–1935) c. 1906. Portrait of the author Franza 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 context.
Staatliche Fachakademie für Fotodesign München
The Staatliche Fachakademie für Fotodesign München was an independent training facility for photography and photo design in Munich with several predecessor institutions dating back to 1900. It was incorporated into the Munich University of Applied Sciences in 2002.
Georg Heinrich Emmerich
Frank Eugene
Fachakademie für Fotodesign entrance sign