(Thorn, Germany (now Torún, Poland), 1896 - 1990)
1946-1955 (printed 1981)
Palladium print
Collection of the Akron Art Museum
Gift of the Stephen White Gallery of Photography, Inc.
1988.10 b
Though best known for her portraits of famous people, Jacobi also experimented with abstraction in her “photogenics.” She described making these photograms (photographs made without a camera) as drawing on photo-sensitized paper by moving the light source. While photography is most often used to document the external world, Jacobi’s abstractions are a vehicle for imagination.
signed in pencil LR "Lotte Jacobi"