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Entertainers

1930s
(French, 1905–1986)
France, 20th century
gelatin silver print
Image: 23.9 x 17.5 cm (9 7/16 x 6 7/8 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 2007.100
Location: not on view
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Paris was the only salaried staff photographer at VU, a French illustrated magazine that debuted almost a decade before its American counterpart, Life. Intended as a vehicle for fine photographic illustration and documentation, VU published numerous artists affiliated with Surrealism, many of whom are represented in this exhibition. Paris’s stories for the magazine covered wide-ranging subjects from Spanish Civil War refugees and French prostitutes to life behind the scenes at the Opéra and the Folies Bergères, where this image may have been taken.
Entertainers

Entertainers

1930s

Gaston Paris

(French, 1905–1986)
France, 20th century

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