Lotte meitner graf biography of william

In this post, we take a look at some of the brilliant photographers in the archive...

 

Lotte Meitner-Graf
 

Lotte Meitner-Graf’s portraits are alive with personality and character.

Lotte was born Charlotte Graf on 17 November to a lawyer, Wilhelm Graf, and his wife Berta (née Ruzicka).

Lotte was born Charlotte Graf on 17 November to a lawyer, Wilhelm Graf, and his wife Berta (née Ruzicka).

Photograph by Lotte Meitner-Graf.

Lotte Meitner-Graf (–, born as Charlotte Graf), was a noted Austrian black-and-white portrait photographer.

Lotte Graf was a well known portrait photographer.

Sir William McAlpine, who died recently aged He was sent, in uniform, to the Meitner-Graf studio by his father when aged 22 he joined the Life Guards.

Although often a fairly simple arrangement, the images all seem to tell you a story about the person.

 

 

Meitner-Graf was an Austrian photographer. She moved to London in 1937 and was a successful portrait photographer.

Often working from her studio in Bond Street, Meitner-Graf photographed many famous faces including Alma Cogan, Albert Schweitzer and Danny Kaye.

 

 

Dorothea Lange

 

Perhaps most famous for her image ‘Migrant Mother’, Dorothea Lange was an American photographer who documented the Great Depression and whose work became emblematic for the era.

 

 

Having started out as a portrait photographer, she went on to photograph and record struggling farmers and rural societies