Lisette ModelPhotographic Practice

Lisette Model was a modernist photographer and is best known for her portraiture photography. She is identified by her unique compositions and for exposing the reality of her subjects whilst capturing historic images of Vienna and Paris culture.

Lisette Model was born into a wealthy Viennese family where her Italian/Austrian Jewish father was a well-off doctor, her mother a French Catholic. Consequently her education was an international one. By travelling a lot she learnt three different languages and was tutored privately. After the death of her father Model moved to Paris to study voice with a well-known polish soprano. As her fate has it Model gave up her music career around 1933 and studied art. The following year whilst visiting her mother in Nice, Model p...