A Lisette Model
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the text and find out about the missing information by asking your partner.
Lisette
Model was born into a wealthy Jewish family in ________, Austria, in 1901. Music was her passion
and she studied voice and piano. With Hitler’s rise to power in Germany, the safety of Jewish people was
in question, even in Austria. Model moved with her family to
____________ in 1926. There, she took up photography so that she would have a
practical skill. Photography became both her medium of artistic expression and
her main source of livelihood.
In 1938, Model immigrated to New York City
with her husband, who was __________. She fell in love with the city’s noisy,
narrow streets, _________________, fast pace, and energy. Throughout the next
ten years she mainly photographed _________________________.
Her powerful images of New York
were frequently seen in the magazine Harper’s
Bazaar. It was through her role as a teacher, however, that Model had the
greatest impact on young photographers. For the thirty years before her death
in _________, she taught her students to open their eyes and respond to their
subjects with their hearts.
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Louis Armstrong
French Gambler
singer
B Lisette Model
Read
the text and find out about the missing information by asking your partner.
Lisette Model was born into a wealthy Jewish
family in Vienna,
Austria,
in _______. Music was her passion and she studied ____________ and __________.
With Hitler’s rise to power in Germany,
the safety of Jewish people was in question, even in Austria.
Model moved with her family to France
in 1926. There, she took up _________________ so that she would have a
practical skill. Photography became both her medium of artistic expression and
her main source of livelihood.
In 1938, Model __________________________
with her husband, who was a painter. She fell in love with the city’s noisy,
narrow streets, tall buildings, fast pace, and energy. Throughout the next ten
years she mainly photographed subjects she found on the city streets.
Her powerful images of New York
were frequently seen in the magazine ____________________.
It was through her role as a teacher, however, that Model had the greatest
impact on young photographers. For the thirty years before her death in 1983,
she taught her students ____________________________________.
Click
at one of the links below and and describe one photograph to your partner; feel
free to search other photos if you don't like the ones below.
Louis Armstrong
French Gambler
singer
