Lisette Model Bio

    Family and Childhood
 Lisette Model was born on November 10, 1906 in Vienna, Australia, she then died in 1983. She grew up in a wealthy upper-middle class family with her older brother and her younger sister. Her mother was French Catholic and her father was Jewish and a militant doctor. At a young age her father sexually molested her, she did not let this affect her life but her close friends and acquaintances can remember the pain it caused her early on. Her father later died of cancer in 1924, and the family wealth died with him.

    Education and Books
  Model was fluent in 3 languages, and she got her higher education from tutors that her mother got for her and her siblings. She studied in Vienna first, then moved to Paris and studied under Arnold Schoenburg for music, he eventually broadened her spectrum of the arts and introduced her to other artistic things. While living in Paris she married the Russian artist Evsa Model. She had a struggling career with art and music and in 1933 she began to pursue a full time career in photography. Some of her books are "Daring to See" and "Splitting into the Window". 

    Later life
 Later Model moved to America in 1938 with her husband.  She lived in New York and continued photography and soon became a known photographer. Her work was featured almost weekly in the Harper's Bazaar, Cue, and PM weekly. She was also a teacher or the ins and outs of photography her most notable student being Diane Arbus. 

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Merger Shoot Preview