The photographer Johanna Alexandra Jacobi Reiss, affectionately known as Lotte, was born in Thorn, West Prussia in 1896 in what is now Poland....
Lotte Jacobi
JACOBI, LOTTE (Johanna Alexandra; 1896–1990), U.S.
photographer. Born in Thorn, West Prussia (now Torun, Poland), to a fourth-generation photographer family, Jacobi captured the heady spirit of the Weimar Republic, particularly the intellectual and artistic elite who lived in Berlin or passed through it, before she fled the Nazis in 1935.
She began her photographic career at 14, documenting the world around her with a homemade pinhole camera.
Lotte Jacobi (1896 – 1990) was a prominent portrait photographer and photojournalist, celebrated for her distinctive high-contrast black-and-.
Her family had the most famous portrait-photography business in Germany, Atelier Jacobi, with studios in Thorn, Poznan, and Berlin. She was in her early thirties when she finished her studies and joined her
One of her famous subjects was Peter *Lorre.
She was allowed only one image, and it turned out to be a classic, with Lorre shot as close up as possible. She captured his villainous look, but softened the angle by shooting from above. Her interest in modern dance led her to make photos of dancers in action, aided by her own