(based on "20th Century Photography-Museum Ludwig Cologne")
Model
Lisette
(b Vienna, 10 Nov 1906; d New York, 30 March 1983).
American photographer of Austrian birth. A school-friend of Gertrude
Schoenberg, she studied music first with her father Arnold Schoenberg,
before continuing her studies in Paris. She was a self-taught photographer
and tried to find ways of working in photography, training as a technician
in a photographic laboratory. In 1938 she settled in New York. Two years
later the photographer Ralph Steiner (1899–1986) published her series of
photographs, Promenade des Anglais, which she had taken in Nice in
1937. The series was characteristic of her work in revealing her obvious
love of people, seen for example in Promenade des Anglais (1937),
which depicts a rotund woman in a large sunhat, sitting precariously on a
bench. The photographers Alexey Brodovitch (1898–1971) and Beaumont Newhall
(b 1908) were impressed by her work.
French Riviera, 1937
At Sammy's
1940-44
Gambler, French Riviera
1937
Running Legs
1940-41
Fashion Show, Hotel Pierre, New York
1940-46
Reflection, New York (Delancey Street)
1940-1950
Albert-Alberta, Hubert's Forty-second Street Flea Circus,
New York
1945
Running
Legs
1940-41
We Mourn
Our Loss
1945
Reflections, NYC, Fifth Avenue
Belmont Park Race Track, seated man with umbrella
Untitled
Broadway Singer, Metropolitan Café, New
York
Coney Island, Standing
Lower East Side, New York, 1940s
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