Original 5X7 Silver Gelatin Advertising Photograph of Albert Einstein [FROM THE STUDIO OF LOTTE JACOBI]

(Science) EINSTEIN, Albert

New Jersey? Jacobi Studio, 1938. 5 X 7 Inches. Very Good. Item #9498

SCARCE original headshot of Albert Einstein by Lotte Jacobi (circa 1938). This iconic photograph of Einstein features him wearing his leather coat inside his Princeton, New Jersey home. Scarce cropped photograph of Einstein's face with Jacobi Studio text in lower border. "Albert Einstein: A Photographic Study By Lotte Jacobi - Jacobi Studio, 46 West 52nd Street, New York 19 NY."

Lotte Jacobi took this photograph of the theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, at his home in Princeton, New Jersey (at the time he was a professor at the university). Both Jewish, the two had been family friends a decade earlier in Germany. Einstein had renounced his German citizenship for political reasons after leaving Nazi Germany in 1933, and Jacobi had been forced to emigrate to the United States from Nazi Germany after she too renounced her German citizenship in 1935. Jacobi and Einstein collaborated on the crafting of his media image in a series of late-1930s Princeton portraits commissioned by Life magazine. Einstein agreed to sit for the photo session only if Lotte Jacobi was assigned to photograph him. The image of Einstein in a leather jacket is unusual in that it catches him in a less-guarded, less-constructed moment than the others and offers the viewer a glimpse of the world-famous theoretical physicist as an individual, rather than as a stereotyped professor.

Rubbing and light wear at corners. A SCARCE advertising piece from the Jacobi Studio.

Price: $300.00