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

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lotte Jacobi is the 109th most popular photographer (up from 113th in 2019), the 1,035th most popular biography from Poland (down from 1,028th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Polish Photographer.

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Lotte Jacobi ranks 109 out of 148Before her are František Drtikol, Manuel Rivera-Ortiz, William Eggleston, Gaudenzio Marconi, Graciela Iturbide, and Bob Guccione. After her are Hedi Slimane, Sabine Weiss, David Douglas Duncan, Joel-Peter Witkin, Karl Struss, and Rineke Dijkstra.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Lotte Jacobi ranks 221Before her are Nikolai Tikhonov, Alexander Brailowsky, Gunnar Lindström, José Vidal, Margarete Adler, and Walter Breuning. After her are Anton Walbrook, Hermann Jónasson, Okuro Oikawa, Alberto Vargas, Luiz Vinhaes, and Natalie Talmadge. Among people deceased in 1990, Lotte Jacobi ranks 237Before her are Xosé María Díaz Castro, Max Bulla, Concha Piquer, Margarete Adler, Allen Collins, and José Luis Panizo. After her are Larry O'Brien, Jill Esmond, Mary Martin, Gary Merrill, Chiara Badano, and Ina Balin.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Lotte Jacobi ranks 1,035 out of 1,694Before her are Hans Sturm (1935), Ludwik Rajchman (1881), Karolina Kózka (1898), Hertha Sponer (1895), Danuta Szaflarska (1915), and Jan Dobraczyński (1910). After her are Juliusz Machulski (1955), Adam Przeworski (1940), Marie Juchacz (1879), Anna Louisa Karsch (1722), Walter Krueger (1881), and Mariusz Lewandowski (1979).

Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In Poland

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