Lotte Meitner-Graf photographed many of the world's great artists, scientists and writers, from the 1930s until her death twenty years later. She had her own studio at 23 Old Bond Street in London from 1953. Here are some of my favourite portraits.
Leontyne Price by Lotte Meitner-Graf, c. 1958
Helene Weigel by Lotte Meitner-Graf, 1930s
Otto Klemperer by Lotte Meitner-Graf, 1950s
Yehudi Menuhin by Lotte Meitner-Graf, c. 1963
Jean Seberg by Lotte Meitner-Graf, c. 1957
Albert Schweitzer by Lotte Meitner-Graf, 1959
Danny Kaye by Lotte Meitner-Graf, c. 1955
The writer Elizabeth Taylor by Lotte Meitner-Graf, c. 1957
Niels Bohr by Lotte Meitner-Graf, c. 1956
Benjamin Britten by Lotte Meitner-Graf, c. 1960
Nobel Prize-winning chemist Dorothy Hodgkin by Lotte Meitner-Graf, 20 July 1960
Chinua Achebe by Lotte Meitner-Graf, c. 1970
Julian Bream and Peter Pears by Lotte Meitner-Graf, c. 1960
And finally, a self-portrait of Lotte Meitner-Graf from the early 1950s.
