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Mirrors & Masks: Reflections and Constructions of the Self

Lotte Jacobi, Käthe Kollwitz (1930) Gelatin silver print. Gift of Seymour Adelman, PA.1980.1.2.

"My style is the style of the person I am photographing." (Lotte Jacobi) Here, Jacobi borrows the artistic style of her sitter, artist and frequent self-portraitist Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945). By appropriating her strategies of tight cropping and direct address, Jacobi preserves the appearance of the subject confronting herself in a mirror. Perhaps she uses the portrait’s mirroring effect to identify herself with this fellow artist.

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1. Lotte Jacobi, Käthe Kollwitz (1930) Gelatin silver print. Gift of Seymour Adelman, PA.1980.1.2. "My style is the style of the person I am photographing." (Lotte Jacobi) Here, Jacobi borrows the artistic style of her sitter, artist and frequent self-portraitist Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945). By appropriating her strategies of tight cropping and direct address, Jacobi preserves the appearance of the subject confronting herself in a mirror. Perhaps she uses the portrait’s mirroring effect to identify herself with this fellow artist.
2. Mary Cassatt, The Coiffure (1890-91) Drypoint and soft-ground etching. Gift of Edith Finch (Class of 1922) from the Collection of Lucy Martin Donnelly (Class of 1893), 1949.16.

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