Lisette Model
American, b. Austria, 1901-1983
Born 1901, Vienna, Austria
Died 1983, New York
The daughter of an Austrian-Italian Jewish father and a French Catholic mother, Model was raised in Vienna. Originally a music student, she studied with the composer Arnold Schoenberg, continuing her training in Paris in the early 1920s, before developing an interest in photography. In 1938 she moved to New York, where she worked as a photographer for PM magazine (1940–41). She soon afterward joined the Photo League, where she studied with Sid Grossman, served as a judge in membership print competitions, and participated in group exhibitions until the League's demise in 1951. Model had her first solo exhibition at the Photo League in 1941. From 1941 to 1953 she worked as a freelance photographer for Harper's Bazaar, Look, and Ladies' Home Journal, and other publications. She taught photography first at the San Francisco Institute of Fine Arts (1947) and then at New York's New School for Social Research (1951–83), where Berenice Abbott was a colleague and Diane Arbus one of her students.
Although she did not have numerous exhibitions in her lifetime, her work has been shown extensively since her death, including at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1983), Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2000), and museums and galleries in Canada, Switzerland, and Spain. Her work appeared in the group exhibition "The Women of the Photo League" at Higher Pictures Gallery, New York (2009).
Died 1983, New York
The daughter of an Austrian-Italian Jewish father and a French Catholic mother, Model was raised in Vienna. Originally a music student, she studied with the composer Arnold Schoenberg, continuing her training in Paris in the early 1920s, before developing an interest in photography. In 1938 she moved to New York, where she worked as a photographer for PM magazine (1940–41). She soon afterward joined the Photo League, where she studied with Sid Grossman, served as a judge in membership print competitions, and participated in group exhibitions until the League's demise in 1951. Model had her first solo exhibition at the Photo League in 1941. From 1941 to 1953 she worked as a freelance photographer for Harper's Bazaar, Look, and Ladies' Home Journal, and other publications. She taught photography first at the San Francisco Institute of Fine Arts (1947) and then at New York's New School for Social Research (1951–83), where Berenice Abbott was a colleague and Diane Arbus one of her students.
Although she did not have numerous exhibitions in her lifetime, her work has been shown extensively since her death, including at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1983), Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2000), and museums and galleries in Canada, Switzerland, and Spain. Her work appeared in the group exhibition "The Women of the Photo League" at Higher Pictures Gallery, New York (2009).
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