The second Friday of every month, one of P&D’s knowledgeable volunteers will give a talk that explores an area of the AGO’s P&D Collection.

Robert Frost, Poet, Ripton, VT. (1959)
Gelatin Silver Print

Talk by: Rheba Adolph
Date: Friday, May 10
Time: 11 am (arrive at 10:30 to view works on display!)

Lotte Jacobi was born in Thorn, Germany in 1896, and took her first photograph with a pinhole camera at the age of twelve.  Her Berlin portraits of such figures as Lotte Lenya, Kurt Weill, and László Moholy-Nagy were stylistically influenced by both Alfred Stieglitz and Albert Renger-Patzsch, and illustrate the city’s vibrant cultural life. When Jacobi left Germany to flee the Nazis, she had already established herself as a leading photographer of major cultural personalities. She built her reputation on the strength of her portraiture; in the 1950s, she began to make abstract images and landscapes, using a camera-less technique she called “photogenics”.

As the new Photography 1920s-40s: Women in Focus exhibition opens, this talk looks at one of photography’s trailblazers who showed a zeal for technological innovation and avant-garde expression.

(Please note: Attendance at P&D talks can reach full capacity in the Study Centre. Volunteers, please keep in mind that seating is given to our visitors first.)