Lisette Model is a key figure in the history of photography, both for her unique style and her work as a teacher. Lisette Model was a modernist photographer and is widely known for her portraiture style photography of people on the street. Model saw her camera as a way to detect and expose the reality of her subjects. She would carefully frame and crop her photos, but never retouched them. We now live in a world of Photoshop where you can manipulate images. As for Model, she captured the world for what it was.
Model was born on November 10, 1901, in Vienna, Austria. Her birth name was, Elise Amelie Felicie Stern. In 1903 Model’s family changed their name from Stern to Seybert due to an increase in anti-Semitism. Lisette had one older brother, Salvatór, and a younger sister Olga. Her father, was Austrian-Italian and Jewish, and her mother, was French and Catholic. Lisette Model was raised in Catholic faith. Model acquired her education through …show more content…
She found great empathetic relationships with her various subjects. Model took a great interest in people she photographed. Her focus was on their bodies, their faces, and their clothing. Most of Model's portraits were of full figures. Examinations from negatives reveal her photographs were cropped to focus more on the subject and eliminate their surroundings. This is seen in many of her portraits from Promenade des Anglais as well as her later work. Nearly all of Model's images can be classified as "street photography." Street photography is candid photography made in public situations, a style which developed after the invention of the hand-held camera.
Lisette Model contributed to photography by introducing, traditions of Eastern European photographers and helped kick off their style in the United States in the early 1940s. Model's pictures, forced individuals to look closely at one another. Her closely cropped negatives and size of her prints convey
Model was born on November 10, 1901, in Vienna, Austria. Her birth name was, Elise Amelie Felicie Stern. In 1903 Model’s family changed their name from Stern to Seybert due to an increase in anti-Semitism. Lisette had one older brother, Salvatór, and a younger sister Olga. Her father, was Austrian-Italian and Jewish, and her mother, was French and Catholic. Lisette Model was raised in Catholic faith. Model acquired her education through …show more content…
She found great empathetic relationships with her various subjects. Model took a great interest in people she photographed. Her focus was on their bodies, their faces, and their clothing. Most of Model's portraits were of full figures. Examinations from negatives reveal her photographs were cropped to focus more on the subject and eliminate their surroundings. This is seen in many of her portraits from Promenade des Anglais as well as her later work. Nearly all of Model's images can be classified as "street photography." Street photography is candid photography made in public situations, a style which developed after the invention of the hand-held camera.
Lisette Model contributed to photography by introducing, traditions of Eastern European photographers and helped kick off their style in the United States in the early 1940s. Model's pictures, forced individuals to look closely at one another. Her closely cropped negatives and size of her prints convey