Famous Photographers
When we recently discovered that Lotte Lehmann’s 1947 photograph taken by George Platt Lynes is in the National Portrait Gallery, it reminded us that she had been photographed a lot throughout her life. Many of the photos were taken by Europe and America’s most important portrait photographers: F.F. Bauer (1903-1972), Bettmann (1903-1998), E. Bieber (1878-1962), Caputo, DeBellis, Dietrich, Dührkoop (1873-1929), Edwards, Ellinger (1860-1940), Fayer (1892-1950), Fleischhut (1881-1951), Fleischmann (1895-1990), Foka, Löwy (1883-1938), Maillard-Kesslere (1894-1979), McCombe, Meintner-Graf (1899-1973), Mélancon, Mocsigay, Orkin, Rothmaier, Franz Setzer (1886-1939) (aka Tschiedel-Setzer, the atelier), Skall (1884-1942), and Willinger (1879-1943). But there were also several creative art photographers who took time to set up special elements for the shot. Besides George Platt Lynes (1907-1955), there were Edward Steichen (1879-1973), Horst P. Horst (Horst Paul Albert Bohrmann) (1906-1999), Stadler (for whom I found no information), and other creative photographers. If you know the identity of the un-attributed artists, please let us know. One of the Steichen photos of Lehmann as the Marschallin appeared in Vanity Fair first in 1935 and again in a 1992 Flashback with a text you may read here.
