Renée Jacobs': POLAROIDS

Renée Jacobs is one of the most celebrated photographers of the female nude of our time. Recipient of the prestigious International Photography Award for Fine Art Nude, her work has been exhibited and published around the world. Monographs of her work include Werkdruck (2012/Editions Galerie Vevais), Renée Jacobs' PARIS (2013/Editions Galerie Vevais) and Rêves de Femmes (2014/Editions Bessard). Her book POLAROIDS and the second edition of PARIS are scheduled to be released in 2021. Magazines that have featured Renée's work include Vanity Fair France, Elle Italia, L'Oeil de la Photographie, Playboy Italia, Silvershotz, Adore Noir, PH Magazine, Fine Art Photo, Nude Magazine, Photoicon, French Photo, B&W Magazine, Focus, Discarded Magazine, FHM Turkey and numerous others. She has been featured in numerous anthologies, such as Taschen's Mammoth Book of Erotic Photography. Renée's early photojournalism included assignments for The New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer and many other newspapers and magazines. She received the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Outstanding Coverage of the Disadvantaged and her work is in the permanent collection of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library. Her first book, Slow Burn: A Photodocument of Centralia, Pennsylvania was originally published in 1986 and re-issued in 2010 to favorable reviews in The New York Times Review of Books and photo-eye. After a 15 year detour as a civil rights lawyer, Renée returned to photography. Reneé Jacobs in an interview about this edition: "... The obligatory "Not All Men" I would be remiss if I didn't close the loop here about the incredible men that have supported my work--my publisher Alexander Scholz of Galerie Vevais in Berlin with whom I've had a ten year artistic love affair."