[Self-Portrait]

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[Self-Portrait]

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Lotte Beese

German Photographer · 1903–1988

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Lotte Beese studied weaving, architecture, and photography at the Bauhaus school, where she worked with Josef Albers, Wassily Kandinsky, and Paul Klee, among others. She made photographs only briefly, from 1926 until 1928. For most of her professional life, Beese worked as an architect in Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union, and Amsterdam, where she established an office in 1935. She later worked as

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Date
1927
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Culture
German
Department
Photographs
Institution
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Object ID
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Lotte Beese made this inventive self-portrait by photographing her own shadow against a door. The strong black of the door handle echoes the shape of her truncated hand and the window shadows that intersect her head. The negative-positive quality of the print created by the intense sunlight disorients the viewer.

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