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Grand Prix Longchamps

Photograph
1929 (photographed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Photograph


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleGrand Prix Longchamps (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Gelatin-silver print
Brief description
Gelatin-silver print, 'Grand Prix Longchamps', 1929, Marianne Breslauer
Physical description
Photograph
Dimensions
  • Height: 17.5cm
  • Width: 22.8cm
Credit line
Given by the artist, in memory of Arthur and Tamara Kauffmann. Copyright Estate of Marianne Breslauer
Object history
Marianne Breslauer was part of Man Ray's circle and of the cosmopolitan scene in the 1920's and early 30's. Breslauer produced memorable portraits of the famously androgynous Swiss travel writer Annemarie Schwarzenbach who experimented with drugs and died tragically young. Breslauer described Schwarzenbach as : "neither a woman, neither a man, but an angel, an archangel..." She also took street photographs utilising the new light cameras of the time - typified by the Leica, introduced in 1925 - to look at the world from unexpected vantage points.
Subjects depicted
Place depicted
Collection
Accession number
PH.800-1987

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Record createdAugust 4, 2003
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