[Rarebooks] FS: Signed Lotte Jacobi Photograph of Robert Frost

[Charles Agvent]

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[FROST,  Robert]  JACOBI,  Lotte. ORIGINAL  PHOTOGRAPH  of  ROBERT
FROST.  Fine  7-1/4" x 9-3/4" (including thin white  border)  original
photographic  portrait,  matted  and  framed to  an  overall  size  of
12-1/4"  x  15-1/2", by Lotte Jacobi of poet Robert Frost.  SIGNED  in
pencil  by  the photographer in the lower right corner of  the  image.
Frost,  who  had a reputation of being unresponsive to  photographers,
initially  rejected Jacobi's requests to photograph him. She was  able
to  arrange  a visit to the poet at his Ripton, Vermont home  and  her
ability  to make him feel at ease, discussing their mutual interest in
gardening,  transformed  a scheduled short visit into a long  tour  of
Frost's farm resulting in several rare candid photographs of the poet,
including  this  one of the poet staring wistfully up at the sky  with
his  hands clasped as if in prayer. Jacobi's photographs of Frost rank
with  her much better known photographs of Albert Einstein as some  of
her  best work. Slight, faint crease to the bottom of the image  below
Frost's  hands. Not examined out of the frame. Uncommon image in about
Fine condition, handsomely presented.                         $2000.00

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