Lotte Meitner-Graf (1899–1973, born as Charlotte Graf), was a noted Austrian black-and-white portrait photographer. She was married to physicist

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's brother Walter (1891–1961). Meitner-Graf moved to England with her family in 1937, opening her own studio at 23 Old Bond Street in London in 1953.Paul Frecker - 19th Century Photography London
(Accessed April 2012) Frisch, in his ''Times'' obituary, noted that there "can be few educated people who have not seen one of Lotte Meitner-Graf’s photographic portraits, either on a book jacket (for instance, Bertrand Russell’s autobiography, or Antony Hopkins’s ''Music All Around Me'') or on a record sleeve or concert programme."Frisch, O. R. (1973) Obituary: Lotte Meitner-Graf (1899–1973) ''The Times'', 2 May She photographed Albert Schweitzer, musicians Marion Anderson, Otto Klemperer and Yehudi Menuhin; actors John Gielgud and

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; and scientists Lord Blackett, William Lawrence Bragg,

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, and Max Perutz.

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