Background
Lisette Model was born on November 10, 1901, in Vienna, Austria.
72 5th Ave, New York, NY 10011, USA
Since 1951 Lisette taught at the New School for Social Research in New York City, New York, United States.
72 5th Ave, New York, NY 10011, USA
Since 1951 Lisette taught at the New School for Social Research in New York City, New York, United States.
Lisette Model was born on November 10, 1901, in Vienna, Austria.
Model received early training in music as a student of Arnold Schoenberg. In 1922 she went to Paris, France to study music and painting, beginning photography in 1937.
In 1938 Lisette moved to the United States with her husband, the painter Evsa Model. In two years Model applied for a job in the photographic lab of the newspaper P.M. in New York City, New York, United States, but instead of hiring her, the picture editor, Ralph Steiner, published her Promenade des Anglais images: taken on the French Riviera in 1937, they made her a critical success.
From 1941 to 1953 Lisette worked for Harper’s Bazaar. Since 1951 Lisette taught at the New School for Social Research in New York City, New York, United States. Working in small- and medium-format black-and-white, Model is known for her stark images of often large individuals who fill most of the frame and create a sense of mass. Also, she has done an ongoing series on reflections.
Publications Monograph: Lisette Model, essay by Berenice Abbott, 1979. Books: The History of Photography from 1839 to the Present Day, Beaumont Newhall, 1949, 4th ed., 1964; A Guide to Better Photography, Berenice Abbott, 1941. Anthologies: The Snapshot, Jonathan Greene, 1974; Looking at Photographs, John Szarkowski, 1973; Hundred Years of the Ameri- can Female, Nancy White, ed., 1967; Photogra- phy in the Twentieth Century, Nathan Lyons, 1967; Photography of the World, 1958 (Heibonsha: Tokyo); The Family of Man, Edward Steichen, ed., 1955. Catalogs: Model Photographs, 1976 (Sander Gall.: Wash., D.C.); Women of Photography: An Historical Survey, Margery Mann, 1975 (San Francisco Mus. of Modern Art).
Periodicals: Camera, Dec 1979, Sept 1978, Dec 1977, Nov 1975, Dec 1972, Feb 1972, Mar 1971; "Lisette Model: Re-Emergence from Legend," Aperture, no. 78, 1977; "Lisette Model," Center for Creative Photography Bulletin, May 1977; Creative Camera, Yearbook 1976, Nov 1974, Nov 1969; "Lisette Model: Keeping the Legend Intact," Infinity: ASMP, Jan 1973; "Gallagher's People . . . Photographed by Lisette Model," Apr 1945, "Lisette Model: Pictures By a Great Refu- gee Photographer," Tom Maloney, Oct 1942, U.S. Camera-, U.S. Camera Annual, 1943, 1942; "Candid Photography ," Phillip Andrews, Com- plete Photographer, Dec 20, 1941.
Lisette was married to Evsa Model.
