Cities and Travel
Tajik woman Stalinabad, 1932
View of Moscow and the Kremlin, January, 1933
London, 1935
Central Park by Night, New York, around 1940
View of Manhattan from the Squibb Building, New York,
around 1940
Theatre and Dance
Claire Bauroff, Dancer, Berlin, ca. 1928
Head of a Dancer, (Niura Norskkaya) Berlin, ca. 1929
Lotte Lenya, Actress, Berlin, ca. 1930
Pauline Koner, Dancer, New York, ca. 1937
Photogenics
Most ‘‘photogenics’’ were made in New York between 1946
and 1955 and are untitled
Further Reading
Beckers, Marion and Elisabeth Moortgat.Atelier Lotte
Jacobi, Berlin/New York. Berlin: Das Verborgenes Mu-
seum, 1997.
Goldberg, Vicki. ‘‘Lotte Jacobi.’’American Photographer 2
(March 1979): 22–31.
Lotte Jacobi: A Selection of Vintage and Modern Photo-
graphs, Beverly Hills, CA: Stephen White Gallery, 1986.
Lotte Jacobi: Photographs, introduction and notes by Peter
Moriarty, Boston: David R. Godine, 2002.
Lotte Jacobi: Theatre & Dance Photographs. Woodstock,
VT: Countryman Press, 1982.
Lotte Jacobi: Portraits & Photogenics, Baltimore: Univer-
sity of Maryland, Baltimore County Library, c 1978.
Lotte Jacobi Papers located at the Diamond Library, Uni-
versity of New Hampshire, Durham.
Wise, Kelly, ed.Lotte Jacobi. Danbury, New Hampshire:
Addison House, 1978.SUNIL JANAH
Indian
Photojournalist Sunil Janah was born in 1918 in
Dibrugarh in the northeast Indian state of Assam,
and educated at St. Xavier’s and Presidency colleges
in Calcutta. A gift of a camera from his grandmother
at age 11 and inspiration from a family friend
engaged in the profession of photography launched
his career as one of the most prolific photographers
of pre- and post-independence India. Janah captured,
through his lens, images of some of India’s most
tumultuous and calamitous times. In the 1940s
alone, his photographs recorded the Bengal famine
of 1943; the South India famine of 1945 (with Mar-
garet Bourke-White); India’s peasant, labor, and
independence movements; and the communal vio-
lence and mass dislocations that accompanied the
Partition of India.
Janah’s photographic interests started with
the pictorial, photography being a hobby secon-
dary to his interest in literature. Eventually, he
combined the two interests to launch a lifelong
career in photojournalism.
Janah joined the Communist Party of India in
1943 and briefly served as the photo editor on the
party’s newspaperThe People’s War.He probably
envisioned the deliverance of India from British
imperialism in a socialist system of governance. It
was through his involvement in the Communist
Party, substantiated by his photographic represen-Lotte Jacobi, Robert Lee Frost (1874–1963), poet. Photo-
graph, gelatin silver print, 17.524.5 cm.
[National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution/Art
Resource, New York]JANAH, SUNIL