Monday, September 15, 2025

Lotte Jacobi

Lotte Jacobi
Self Portrait, Berlin
ca. 1930
platinum print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art


Lotte Jacobi
Man Shaving
ca. 1931
gelatin silver print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Lotte Jacobi
Self Portrait
1936
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Lotte Jacobi
Albert Einstein
1938
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Lotte Jacobi
Photogenic Drawing
ca. 1940
gelatin silver print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Lotte Jacobi
Barbara Morgan
1944
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Lotte Jacobi
Theodore Dreiser
1944
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Lotte Jacobi
Photogenic
ca. 1946
gelatin silver print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Lotte Jacobi
Fanny Hurst
1946
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Lotte Jacobi
Subjective
ca. 1948
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Lotte Jacobi
Louise Nevelson
ca. 1950
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Lotte Jacobi
Pauline Koner
ca. 1950
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Lotte Jacobi
J.D. Salinger
ca. 1951
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Lotte Jacobi
Robert Frost
1959
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Lotte Jacobi
Minor White
1963
gelatin silver print
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Lotte Jacobi
Minor White
1963
gelatin silver print
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Catharine Reeve
Lotte Jacobi and Barbara Morgan
1982
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Of the Meane and Sure Estate

Stond who so list upon the Slipper toppe
Of courtes estates, and lett me hearre rejoyce;
And use me quyet without lette or stoppe,
Unknowen in courte, that hath such brackish joyes.
In hidden place, so lett my dayes forthe passe,
That when my yeares be done, withouten noyse,
I may dye aged after the common trace.
For hym death greep'the right hard by the croppe
That is moch knowen of other, and of him self alas,
Doth dye unknowen, dazed with dreadfull face.

– Seneca (4 BC-AD 65), translated by Anonymous (1557)