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Focus on the Soul The Photographs of Lotte Jacobi

Focus on the Soul The Photographs of Lotte Jacobi. ESL 5 Culture Study Famous People Presenter: Mi Hyun Hwang Instructor: Lyra Riabov. Contents. About Lotte Jacobi Description of Exhibition My Impression Famous People in Photographs of Jacobi Famous People in Korea.

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Focus on the Soul The Photographs of Lotte Jacobi

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  1. Focus on the SoulThe Photographs of Lotte Jacobi ESL 5 Culture Study Famous People Presenter: Mi Hyun Hwang Instructor: Lyra Riabov

  2. Contents • About Lotte Jacobi • Description of Exhibition • My Impression • Famous People in Photographs of Jacobi • Famous People in Korea

  3. Lotte Jacobi (1896-1990) • Began studying photography as a child in the family studio • Received formal training in Berlin and Munich in the 1920s • Escaped from Nazi Germanyto New York City In the 1930’s • Left for rural New Hampshire in 1955 • Received numerous international, national, and state honors for her artistic achievements In the last decades of her life.

  4. Exhibition of Lotte Jacobi • Exhibition of Lotte Jacobi at Currier Museum of Art from October 10 2003 through January 4, 2004 • Germany (1920-1935) • The Soviet Union (Aug 1932-Feb 1933) • New York (1935-1955) • New Hampshire (1955-1990)

  5. Exhibition of Lotte Jacobi • Germany (1920-1935) - Moved to Berlin in 1920 - Studied photography in Munich in 1925 - Returned to Berlin to assist her father - Began her career in journalistic portraiture. • The Soviet Union (Aug 1932-Feb 1933) - Tour the Soviet Union -Explored Moscow and the Central Asian republics of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. - Choose her subjects on the basis aesthetic rather than political, national, or economic status

  6. Exhibition of Lotte Jacobi • New York (1935-1955) - The Nazis had come to power -Boarded a ship for New York in September 1935. - The most significant works from the 1940s and 1950s were the abstract, cameraless images known as “photogenics” • New Hampshire (1955-1990) - Left New York for rural New Hampshire in 1955 - Eager to pursue some of her environmental interests in the woods of New England - Continued to develop as a fine art photographer - Opened a gallery to exhibit the work of local and international artists in 1963

  7. My Impression “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.” - Lotte Jacobi

  8. Famous People • Famous People in photographs of Jacobi • Robert Frost • Famous People in Korea • Kim, So Wol

  9. Robert Frost • One of America's leading 20th-century poets and a four-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize • Born in San Francisco, taught in Massachusetts, lived in New Hampshire and died in Vermont z • His fame and earning potential increased, but his family life seemed to grow worse with his children's divorces, depression and illness. • His wife Elinor died in 1938 and soon after his son committed suicide. • Amazingly Frost recovered and flourished - teaching, writing, traveling, reading and lecturing.

  10. Kim, So Wol (1902 ~ 1934) • One of the most popular poets in Korea • The grandson of a well-off miner • Published the first poetic collection while he was still a teenager in 1925 • Went to Japan to study at a college of commerce • Returned to Korea because of the decline of his grandfather's fortune • Having return, spent a few years in dissipation, indulging in drinking • Continued to publish his poems in journals till his sudden death • The cause of his death is suspected to be suicide

  11. Robert Frost Keeps cool view of parallelism between nature and man Interested in human being and life instead of nature Kim, So Wol Desires to be in harmony with nature in a positive perspective Sings nature in earnest looking for the eternal love and utopia Comparison of Frost and So Wol

  12. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. <The Road Not Taken> by Robert Frost

  13. When you go away Tired of me, I’ll let you go silently I’ll pick an armful of azalea At Mt. Yak in Yungbyun And scatter them on your road With short steps, Tread softly the flowers Scattered before your feet When you go away Tired of me, I’ll never shed a drop of tear <Azalea> by Kim, So Wol

  14. References • http://www.currier.org • http://www.seacoastsearch.com • http://digital.kongju.ac.kr/inmun • http://www.ketzle.com/frost/ • http://www.sogang.ac.kr/~anthony/Azaleas.htm

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