Lotte Jacobi; Celebrity Photographer

Lotte Jacobi, 93, a photographer known for her candid portraits of such figures as Albert Einstein and Eleanor Roosevelt. During her seven-decade career, celebrities sought out the German-born photographer because of her ability to capture them during private moments or in unusual poses. Some of her most famous photographs were of Einstein, including one that was turned down by Life magazine because its editors believed that the shot--of Einstein lounging in a leather jacket--did not treat him with enough respect. Other portraits included Mrs. Roosevelt, poet Robert Frost, actors Peter Lorre and Lotte Lenya and composer Kurt Weill. She fled Nazi Germany in 1935 and moved to New York, where she opened her own studio. She moved to New Hampshire in 1955 and opened a studio in Deering. In Concord, N.H., on Sunday.