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'[Model's] particular genius was in photographing the bizarre quality of human beings and finding beauty in the grotesque.' -- Alexey Brodovitch ('Brodovitch on Photography', Popular Photography, December 1961.)

LISETTE MODEL (1899-1983)

Newspaperman, Paris, 1933-38

Details

LISETTE MODEL (1899-1983)
Newspaperman, Paris, 1933-38
gelatin silver print
numbered 'B 1/8' in unknown hand in pencil in estate copyright credit stamp on verso
19½ x 15½in. (49.5 x 39.4cm.)

Literature

Lisette Model, Aperture, 1979, p.30-31; Thomas, Lisette Model, National Gallery of Canada, 1990, p.180, pl.37, there titled 'Man with Pamphlets'; Stourdzé & Thomas, Lisette Model, Baudoin Lebon/Léo Scheer, 2002, p.34, there titled 'Paris'.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Large-format vintage prints of Model's work, such as the present lot, are exceedingly rare.

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