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October 29, 2011
Though Lisette Model is known through her pupils Dianne Erbus, her the roots were European roots and they reach back to German expressionism and to Eugène Atget. Her 1940s pictures of Midtown skyscrapers, for instance, are layered with reflections from store windows à la Eugène Atget
Lisette Model, Reflection with hand 1939-45, gelatin silver photograph
Eventually she devoted herself fully to teaching New School for Social Research at Columbia University. Model's teachings have influenced three generations of photographers---Dianne Arbus, Bruce Cratsley, Lynn Davis, Elaine Ellman, Larry Fink, Peter Hujar, Raymond Jacobs, Ruth Kaplan, Leon Levinstein, Eva Rubinstein, Gary Schneider, Rosalind Solomon, and Bruce Weber.
Lisette Model, Reflections, New York, Red Cross, 1939-45, Gelatin silver print
Model used to tell her students to “photograph from your guts.”focusing on the object of passionate interest rather than worrying about how the image would be perceived; about getting close to the subject andtaking an interest in the world around us, breaking with the conventions and routine that keep us from seeing what is around us; about living in the present and reacting spontaneously to the freshness of the moment.
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