Name: One of the Most Famous Photographs of Albert Einstein, Signed by Lotte Jacobi
Brand: Lotte Jacobi
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One of the Most Famous Photographs of Albert Einstein, Signed by Lotte Jacobi

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About the Item

Einstein Albert; Jacobi, Lotte. Silver gelatin photograph One of the most famous photographs of Einstein, signed by the photographer Lotte Jacobi. In 1938, Einstein agreed to sit for a “photo story” by Life magazine on the condition that Lotte Jacobi be the photographer. A noted female portraitist who photographed many of the 20th century’s most famous men and women, Jacobi was descended from a long line of photographers—her great-grandfather having learned the craft from the inventor of photography himself, Louis Daguerre. She abandoned her successful career in Germany in 1935, having declined the Nazis’ offer of “honorary Aryan status”—undoubtedly one of the reasons Einstein so admired her. Jacobi disliked the stiff portraiture technique that characterized the photography studio of her time. Rather, it was her method to bring the studio to the subject, and she liked to wait until her models were most at ease before taking a photo. Here she has brilliantly captured Einstein in his Princeton home in a private moment of deep museful though at work on scientific equations casually dressed in his favourite leather (“bomber”) jacket and with his signature disheveled hair. Life magazine rejected the photograph on the grounds that it defied the prevailing aesthetics of contemporary photographic journalism and that it did not treat Einstein “with enough respect.” But in focusing on the very qualities that defined the inner nature of her subject—his contemplative absorption in his science and his own indifference to social conventions of dress and grooming—Jacobi created one of the most beloved images of the great scientist. The photograph was first publicly exhibited at the MoMA’s 1942 exhibition of “20th Century Portraits” and has since gone on to become an essential image for our conception of the great scientist. Taken in 1938, printed later. Silver gelatin photograph signed by Jacobi in pencil on the bottom right of the image. Size: 9.75 x 7.25 inches. Magnificently archivally framed under museum glass for a size (with frame) of 15 x 18 inches. Fine condition.

Creator:
Lotte Jacobi (Photographer)
Dimensions:
Height: 18 in (45.72 cm)Width: 15 in (38.1 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
Place of Origin:
United States
Period:
1930-1939
Date of Manufacture:
1970
Condition:
Seller Location:
New York, NY
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU90579359563

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