Lisette Model Analysis

As I have chosen to do a genre of documentary photographer and found an interesting story about women name Lisette Model that became the most famous for her work of photographing using an old fashion camera, which is called Rolleiflex camera, that you can still purchase it in the market. Rogi André who is the one person who teaches Model how to use the Rolleiflex as he became her idol. More how her story unfolds as she was named differently and also the year that she was born, was a little off, but that never worries her that she became the top of becoming the world best documentary photographer. Lisette Model was born Elise Amelie Felicie Stern on November 10, 1901, in Vienna, Austria. Her father, Victor, was Austrian-Italian and Jewish; her mother, Felicie, was French and Catholic. Lisette was raised Catholic, but before she was two years old, the family changed its name to from Stern to Seybert because of increasing anti-Semitism.1 Lisette Model began her creative life as a student of music. Through avant-garde composer Arnold Schönberg, with whom she studied piano, she became exposed to the Expressionist painters of early twentieth-century Vienna. She never
formally studied photography but took it up in the 1930s while living in Paris. An early piece of advice received from a colleague--"Never photograph anything you are not passionately interested in"--became her motto. Lisette Model took up photography as a way of earning a living, it is also true that she always fought for her own subjects, rather than simply carry out the assignments given by the editors. She believed that for a photograph to be successful its subject had to be something that “hits you in the stomach.” This could be something familiar or something unfamiliar. For Model, the camera was an instrument for probing the world, a way of capturing aspects of a permanently changing reality that otherwise we would fail to see. Model always said that she looked, but did not judge. Yes, her photographs of the Promenade des Anglais in Nice were published by the left-wing journal Regards, in 1935, but she was not interested exclusively either in the rich or in the poor, and her images are much more about human relations. Her work evinces empathy, curiosity, compassion and admiration, and reflects the photographer’s attraction to voluminous forms, energy and liveliness, to emphatic gesture and expression: the world as a stage. The critic Elizabeth McCausland has described Model’s camerawork as expressing “a subconscious revolt against the rules.” I have chosen two photographs that show a greater expression on how Lisette Model did in her work that have great images. The one image I have gotten calls "Woman in flowered dress" which Model enjoy taking this amazing footage which she had to crop her own image to get the best out of her films. The second image which is another person that is sitting on a hand crafted chair, leaning back, which this image call "French gambler" which he looks like he plays for bets. Those of the images I have selected for this essay to show how Lisette Model was a little bit of documentary and a photojournalist. If I could magically go back in time to photograph a photo of my choice, it would be a boat full of people that coming from overseas to become legalized in the U.S.
I find interesting about people coming to the U.S. to see what we have and what type of jobs they can get. I enjoy seeing that type of life get a document to show that not only America soil, it for everyone that is welcome. As I know that someone already photographs a full of people on board for a better life and show it to the world that we love to see different faces with a happy smile that I will love to photograph. That's why I had chosen Lisette Model as she was an immigrant to the U.S. to thrive her passion for the city of New York where she photographs tons of people in her camera and becoming more popular with the image she
posts.