(b Thorn, W. Prussia [now Torun, Poland], 17 Aug 1896; d Concord, NH, 9 May 1990). American photographer of German birth. From 1925 to 1927 she studied photography and film at the Bavarian State Academy of Photography, Munich. She took over her father’s photographic studio in Berlin in 1927 and became noted for celebrity portraits. Because of Nazism she left Berlin to establish a studio in New York (1935). She avoided a specific style, often presenting subjects casually, for example the portrait of Albert Einstein (1938; see Wise, p. 100) wearing a leather jacket. Another aspect of her professional work was published as Theatre and Dance Photographs (Woodstock, VT, 1982). She used the term ‘photogenics’ to describe the abstract black-and-white images that she produced by moving torches and candles over light-sensitive paper. In 1955 she moved to Deering, NH, and opened a studio.