Lotte Jacobi
(Torún, Poland, 1896 - 1990, Concord, New Hampshire)
Bird in Flight - Homage to Brancusi
1946-1955 (printed 1981)
Palladium print
9 1/4 x 7 in. (23.6 x 17.8 cm)
Collection of the Akron Art Museum
Gift of the Stephen White Gallery of Photography, Inc.
1988.10 j
© 2021 University of New Hampshire, Lotte Jacobi Collection
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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.
Keywords
Black and WhitePhotography
Minimalism
Birds