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Lotte Jacobi

(Torún, Poland, 1896 - 1990, Concord, New Hampshire)

Praying Hands

1946-1955 (printed 1981)

Palladium print

9 3/8 x 7 1/4 in. (23.9 x 18.5 cm)

Collection of the Akron Art Museum

Gift of the Stephen White Gallery of Photography, Inc.

1988.10 d

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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.

Marks

signed in pencil LR "Lotte Jacobi"

Keywords
Hand
Religious
Photography
Abstraction
Black and White