Lisette model

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Lisette Model (born November 10, 1901 in Vienna as Elise Amelie Felicie Stern , in 1903 the family changed the name to Seybert , † March 30, 1983 in New York ) was an American photographer .

life and work

From 1920 Lisette Model studied harmony and counterpoint with Arnold Schönberg, singing with Marie Gutheil-Schoder . After the death of her father in 1926, she left Vienna with her mother and younger sister Olga and commuted between Paris and Nice in southern France. In Paris she continued her vocal training, but turned completely away from music around 1933 and devoted herself to photography.

During a trip to Nice , she met her husband, the painter Evsa Model. In Nice in 1934 she produced an ironic series of pictures about the luxury vacationers on the Promenade des Anglais , which was published in 1935 with a socially critical comment in the magazine Regards , an organ of the Communist Party . This made her breakthrough in the field of street photography . In 1937 she was a student with the surrealist photographer Florence Henri .

In 1938 she emigrated to the United States with her husband . There she came into contact with influential personalities such as Alexei Brodowitsch , the art director of Harper's Bazaar , for which she also took on commissions, and the photographers Ansel Adams and Berenice Abbott . Model photographed New York hotels, bars and nightspots on the Lower East Side and bathers in Coney Island . In addition, the formalistic works of shop window reflections and running legs were created .

To distract the FBI from her series of pictures in Regards during the McCarthy era , she retrospectively re- dated her series of photos about the Promenade des Anglais to 1937.

Well-known personalities she portrayed include Frank Sinatra and Georges Simenon . In 1952 she started a photo series about jazz. She photographed Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald , among others .

From 1949 she taught photography at the California School of Fine Arts (renamed the San Francisco Art Institute in 1961 ) and from 1951 until her death at the New School for Social Research in New York City. Her most famous students were Diane Arbus and Bruce Weber ; to call on are Larry Fink and Shelly Rusten .

Lisette Model died in a New York hospital in 1983.

Street sign Lisette-Model-Platz

In 2016 was in the 8th district of Vienna Josefstadt of Lisette Model Square named after her.

Exhibitions

In 1940, model photos were shown in a group exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art ; solo exhibitions were held in 1941, 1943 and 1946 at the Gallery of the Photo League in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum The Californian Palace of the Legion of Honor .

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personal data
SURNAME Model, Lisette
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American photographer
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 1983
Place of death New York City