Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Lotte Jacobi

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American photographer Lotte Jacobi.
Last updated on October 9, 2024.
Lotte Jacobi

Lotte Jacobi 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.

All the technique you can learn - and you should learn everything you can - you should have it here in the fingers not here in the head - and then you forget about it. — © Lotte Jacobi
All the technique you can learn - and you should learn everything you can - you should have it here in the fingers not here in the head - and then you forget about it.
I was to be a photographer and that was that. It did everything for me. I love people. I needed the camera more than ever I would have believed.
In making portraits, I refuse to photograph myself as do so many photographers. My style is the style of the people I photograph.
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