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Famous photographers 21st century Lotte Jacobi (August 17, – May 6, ) 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.
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Lotte Jacobi was the fourth generation of her family to become a commercial photographer; her great-grandfather Samuel had learned the process from Jacques-Louis-Mandé Daguerre. Jacobi studied art history and literature in Posen, Germany, fromFamous photographers 2024 After leaving Nazi Germany in , Lotte Jacobi became a renowned photographer in New York as she captured intimate portraits of prominent Americans such as Robert Frost, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Paul Robeson. Jacobi was highly interested in politics and an active delegate to the Democratic National Convention.
Among photographers born in Poland, Coming from a long line of photographers, German-born Lotte Jacobi () was known for her intimate, dramatic and often experimental portraits.