PHOTOGRAPHER

Lotte Jacobi

1896 - 1990

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Lotte Jacobi (August 17, 1896 – May 6, 1990) 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 and some of the most important artists, thinkers and activists of the 20th century. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lotte Jacobi has received more than 50,296 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Lotte Jacobi is the 113th most popular photographer (down from 98th in 2019), the 1,028th most popular biography from Poland (down from 929th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Polish Photographer.

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Lotte Jacobi ranks 113 out of 148. Before her are František Drtikol, William P. Gottlieb, Gaudenzio Marconi, Manuel Rivera-Ortiz, Bertha Valerius, and Annemarie Heinrich. After her are Sabine Weiss, Lisette Model, Martha Cooper, Sally Mann, Rineke Dijkstra, and Francesca Woodman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Lotte Jacobi ranks 204. Before her are Ruben Lagus, Eric Backman, Esteban Canal, Gunnar Lindström, Paul van Ostaijen, and Agustín Sancho. After her are Jack Pickford, Walter Breuning, Alberto Vargas, Alexander Brailowsky, Sirarpie Der Nersessian, and Anton Walbrook. Among people deceased in 1990, Lotte Jacobi ranks 219. Before her are Manuel Anatol, Frédéric Rossif, Rosario Livatino, Ludwig von Moos, Larry O'Brien, and An Wang. After her are Adri van Male, Gary Merrill, Chiara Badano, Gino Cappello, Maurice Cloche, and Tibor Berczelly.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Lotte Jacobi ranks 1,028 out of 1,694. Before her are Tadeusz Baird (1928), Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer (1865), Ryszard Szurkowski (1946), Jan Dobraczyński (1910), Curt Lowens (1925), and Zbigniew Rau (1955). After her are Heinrich Laube (1806), Kasia Smutniak (1979), Zygmunt Ajdukiewicz (1861), Jadwiga Jędrzejowska (1912), Zofia Stryjeńska (1891), and Wolfgang Liebeneiner (1905).

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In Poland

Among photographers born in Poland, Lotte Jacobi ranks 3. Before her are Wilhelm Brasse (1917), and Peter Lindbergh (1944).

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