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Lotte Jacobi
Self-Portrait, Berlincirca 1930, printed circa 1980

Not on view
Black and white photograph, a woman in a dark dress stands beside a large wooden camera on a tripod, holding a cable, lit dramatically from the left
Sepia-toned gelatin silver print, three-quarter length portrait of a woman in dark clothing standing beside a large-format view camera, holding a cable release, with dramatic side lighting and dark background.

Lotte Jacobi, Self-Portrait, Berlin, circa 1930, printed circa 1980, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Lotte Jacobi
Germany, active United States, 1896-1990
Title
Self-Portrait, Berlin
Place Made
United States
Date Made
circa 1930, printed circa 1980
Medium
Platinum print
Dimensions
Image: 13 5/8 × 10 in. (34.61 × 25.4 cm) Primary support: 14 1/4 × 10 7/16 in. (36.2 × 26.51 cm) Mat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.64 cm)
Credit Line
The Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection
Accession Number
AC1992.197.72
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography
Selected Bibliography
  • Sobieszek, Robert and Deborah Irmas. the camera i: Photographic Self-Portraits from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection. Los Angeles: The Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1994.

  • Barron, Stephanie, and Sabine Eckmann. New Objectivity: Modern German Art in the Weimar Republic, 1919–1933. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2015.


Copyright
© Lotte Jacobi Collection, University of New Hampshire