Photogenic, 1946

ArtistLotte Jacobi, Torun 1896–1990 Deering

Gelatin silver print

Image dimensions24,6 x 17,9 cm

Status

on display, room 030

About the workFingerprints on photographs are normally a no-go. Lotte Jacobi, however, turned the faux pas into a creative tool by using her fingertips in the darkroom to rework the chemistry on the surface of photographic paper. In this way, she created painterly effects. Jacobi, who came from a German-Jewish family of photographers, had to flee from the National Socialists in 1935 and went into exile in New York. There she became known for her portrait photographs of the international art and cultural scene. At the end of the 1940s, she turned to non-representational photography and created pictures without the use of a camera.

AccessionAcquisition 2019

Provenance[...], 2019 acquired from Kicken Berlin

Inventory numberF.2019.2329

Subjective photography
Abstraction

Contact

sammlung@kunstpalast.de

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