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Photograph
1936 (made)
Artist/Maker
Herbert List (photographer)
Place of origin
London (photographed)

20thC; List Herbert, Schneiderpuppen (or 'Die Sklavin I'), London, 1936

Object details

Object type
Photograph
Title
Brief description
20thC; List Herbert, Schneiderpuppen (or 'Die Sklavin I'), London, 1936
Dimensions
  • Paper height: 404mm
  • Paper width: 304mm
  • Image height: 254mm
  • Image width: 180mm
Gallery label
(07 03 2014)
‘Selling Dreams: One Hundred Years of Fashion Photography’, 2014. Label text:

Herbert List (1903–75)
Schneiderpuppen, also known as Female Slave I
1936

Herbert List briefly worked at Harper’s Bazaar and this image was taken in the magazine’s studio. He explained that his dream-like photographs were ‘composed visions where arrangements try to capture the magical essence inhabiting and animating the world of appearances.’

Gelatin silver print
Museum no. PH.53-1981
Production
List took this Surrealist Image in a London photo studio during a fashion photo shoot for 'Harper's Bazaar'.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
PH.53-1981

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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