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Part of: COMM 159: Digital Media & the City (38 resources )
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Queer Turn of the Century

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Sean Joseph Kramer
Last Updated
May 25, 2022 4:44 p.m.

39 Items in this Learning Collection
Boy with Red Kerchief
A shirtless boy sits wearing blue pants with a red kerchief on his head.
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L'Appollo del Belvedere

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Plaid Shawl
A portrait of a woman seated on a sofa. The figure wears a dress complemented by a plaid shawl around her shoulders. She looks out beyond the pictorial space of the image.
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Business-Men's Class
In an interior space, a large group of men stand with their right arms out and their left elbows bent with their hands on their hips. They are all facing a man whose back is to the viewer. He is also holding his right arm out.
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Carrot with cricket

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Study for 'The Daughters of the Mist'

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Join the Navy, the Service for Fighting Men

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Gee! I Wish I Were a Man - I'd Join the Navy, Naval Reserve, or Coast Guard

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For Your Boy - United War Work Campaign

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Portrait of Sir Frederick Leighton, PRA

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Isadora Duncan
Drawing of a woman, kneeling, facing viewer, arms extended to the ground on the sides of her body, head leaning back. 
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Isadora Duncan
A drawing of a woman standing, facing the viewer, with knees turned slightly to the left and arms extended to the sides, slightly raised. 
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St. Michael Vanquishing Satan

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Men's Fashions
Display window advertising men's suits.
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Bust of Diana
Bust-length figure of a woman with head turned proper left, down-turned eyelids and crescent moon atop head; executed in bronze with a rich, dark patina on a brownish stone base.<br />
Collection Object
Roses and Flowers in a Glass
This painting depicts a glass vase with roses, phlox, and other flowers standing on a table. One pink rose lies next to the vase on the table; the background is an undifferentiated background of brown/tan.
Collection Object
F. Holland Day in Algerian Costume
Photograph of F. Holland Day in an "Algerian costume." Day sits cross-legged and looks down on his clasped hands resting in his lap.
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Goat Herders Reverie

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Young Woman by a Window
Painting featuring a woman wearing a pink and white dress with a train and bustle pulling back a curtain in front of an open window. The woman is in a room decorated with blue and green wallpaper matching the curtain and she stands in front of a table containing potted plants.&nbsp;
Collection Object
Charity (La Charité)
Painting of a woman holding two sleeping nude babies, wearing white fabric draped over her head and shoulders with abundant blue-green fabric wrapped and loosely gathered around the rest of her body standing in front of a lush background with areas of blue sky peaking through the foliage.
Collection Object
Vespasian hearing from one of his generals of the taking of Jerusalem by Titus
The Roman emperor Vespasian sits in an interior receiving a document from a standing figure to the right of the composition. The emperor is dressed in a white robe and sits on a red chair to the left of the composition. The interior is largely dark, with the exception of the emperor, whose figure is brightly lit.<br />The painting is in the original frame, which is constructed to resemble a Roman Temple with base, entablature, and fluted ionic pilasters.
Collection Object
Portrait of Whistler
This image shows a figure set back a bit from the viewer, and standing at an angle facing toward the left of the page. The figure is dressed in a black suit with a white shirt, and is standing on a fairly plain ground with just a few black lines. The figure's hair and outfit blend into the black background.
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Judgement of Solomon

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Ces dames des chars

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Two Figures

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La glace à main

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Head of a Dog

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The Seasons
Four women pose in an outdoor setting. Three women sit on the ground in light dresses, one reads and the other two look toward her book. One woman stands, leaning against a tree that frames the left-most side of the image; she wears a dark dress, her back turned to the viewer.
Collection Object
Balzac, The Open Sky
This photogravure is one of a series of photographs commissioned by Auguste Rodin of his statue of the French writer Honoré de Balzac. The cloaked figure is off-center and facing to the right of the frame. The sculpture emerges from the landscape, illuminated by light from behind and to the left.
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Le foyer de la Comedie-Francaise pendant le siege de Paris

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Les deux amis

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Le matin

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Les Petit Cavaliers, after Vélazquez
The image depicts thirteen men, arranged in three groups and facing in various directions, all standing in a generic outdoor setting. They wear seventeenth century-style costume consisting predominantly of black coats and trousers with white square collars. Several wear black hats, and one waves his hat in the air. The majority either carry or lean on swords. 
Collection Object
Le Chat et les fleurs
On a wooden ledge in the foreground, a cat rubs up against a clawed pot holding flowers. The feline's coat is dark with the exception of a white strip running from its belly up to its chin.  An iron railing spans the width of the background. A second pot of flowers without clawed feet is visible behind the cat; some of its flowers appear to be growing through the lattice of the railing. 
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Bathers

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The Bathers (large plate)

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Bathers

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Croquis d'Eté. Pl.39: On m'a conseillé les bains froids pour...maigrir!...

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Soldier

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COMM 159: Digital Media & the City

Copyright
All Rights Reserved
Created by
Germaine Halegoua
Last Updated
May 25, 2022 4:44 p.m.

38 Items in this Learning Collection
New York at Night
Night view of New York City skyscrapers seen from above.
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Night Shadows

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My City
A collage of buildings and people. A speech bubble says, "My City." ONe image is of Godzilla.
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Symphony of the City (Symphony of a Great City)
Overall black, yellow, white and orange. There is a man&#39;s head with a cigarette in his mouth. He has robotic arms and there is a skyscraper in the background.
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Bar Romero, Greenwich Village
Black and white image of a night scene of a city street with a taxi pulled to the side of the curb, another coming towards it and with lights on.
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Bounded on the West by the Land Under Water
Four spare industrial structures rise at different angles into an empty landscape. On the viewer&#39;s right, a scaffolding rises from the lower corner and angles to the left. On the left, another scaffold structure runs from the bottom corner along the left edge. In the middle, a building-like structure rises from the bottom of the composition and leans into the visual space, resting on a long rectangular solid that is draped with a cloth.
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The City of Ambition
Photograph of the Singer Building in New York, located at Broadway and Liberty. Open to the public in 1908, it was the tallest building in America for one year. In 1968 it was the world's largest skyscaper to be demolished.
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Sultana's Dream: Over the City
No. 25 of a series of 27 prints. A simple, two-tone palette. Three unique flying vehicles, operated by one or two people and surrounded by a flock of birds, hover in the sky over a futuristic-looking city.<br /> Sultana&#39;s Dream was printed and published by Durham Press in 2018.<br /> &nbsp;
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Crosstown Traffic
A night city traffic view with cars headingn to the same direction, having all the car headlights on.
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New York City
This photograph depicts a view of a city sidewalk with pedestrians walking in front of a bar. In the middle of the frame is a phone booth with a woman inside, talking on the phone.
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The Four Times of Day: Noon
This print is vertically oriented with gray markings. A cream border surrounds it and it has “NOON” written below it. The lower half of the print has a busy street scene with lots of adults and children in 18th century garb. The upper half shows the top of the buildings that line the street, including a shop, a brick building, and a church steeple in the distance.<br />
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Sultana's Dream: City in Broad Daylight
No. 4 of a series of 27 prints. A simple, two-tone palette.&nbsp; Several uniquely-dressed people, some with interesting headgear, walk down a winding road toward the viewer; except for the figure in the lower left corner with their back to the viewer. In the distance, behind them, are several buildings done in varied styles of architecture, along with trees, hills and two aircraft in the sky.<br /> Sultana&#39;s Dream was printed and published by Durham Press in 2018.
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Burle Marx, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
This photograph depicts a bird’s eye view of an urban rooftop garden composed in a series of organic shapes.  Pedestrians, cars, and streets are visible below the garden.
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Wires, Santa Tereza, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
This photograph depicts a view of an urban scene with telephone poles and electrical wires strung up and down a winding street.<br />  
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Broadway Melody
abstract painting, tempera on board
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Grain Elevator, Kansas City, Kansas

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Building Reflection, from "City-Scapes Portfolio"

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Night-Times Square, from "City-Scapes Portfolio"

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Railroad Track

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New York in Transit II

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Street Scene
This is a brightly colored oil painting of a street scene. Buildings are depicted in pink, yellow, and white.  A lavender and blue sky with white and yellow clouds makes up the background. Two women stand in the lower left corner; another woman and a black dog are seen on the right side. The ground is made up of patches of white, yellow, pink, and blue.  Thick black outlines are used throughout and the paint has been applied in a very thick and factured manner. Traces of newspaper appear to have been laid on the painting while it was still wet and became stuck and are visible in the clouds at the top and in the white portion of the central building, just under the street lamp.
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New York in Transit I
In this long horizontally oriented print, we see multiple people of various colors on a subway car; some sit and others stand holding onto subway poles. Windows show various scenes- a plane in the sky, men playing basketball, fish, musicians, and a small group of people walking with a flag. 
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Night View Wing I

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Stakes is high
A collage drawing with "Stakes is high" in large bubble letters at the top. The bottom of the drawing is a sparse cityscape and a figure wearing a purple skimask looking at the viewer.
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When was the future?
A collage drawing with "When was the future?" in the middle of the object. The words are cut out of pictures of trees and a city's skyline. The background of the collage is the view of of a tall building and a cutout of a youth doing a handstand is placed on the balcony. A picture of a tree is included by the person.
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A New Design for TV Chair
This vertical print shows a slick advertising image in the top half with a man and a woman watching an early model television set. The woman is smoking a cigarette. A text box is inserted asking three questions. The bottom half is less slick, simply a diagram and text, some of it in a typewriter font. Text above and below asks about how soon television sets will be widely available in homes and museums. The date 1944 is included in parentheses at the top of the image.
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Urban Daydream II
This print is a colorful image of a sink filled with green water. At the center, there is a miniature boat that floats in the water. On the counter-space of the sink at the back, there sits various toiletries such as mouthwash, perfume, toothbrushes, and a razor. Almost out of the frame, a red washcloth hangs off the left edge of the sink. The print is signed (l.r.) "Doug Webb" and numbered (l.l.) "AP 24/75" in pencil.
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From the Radio Tower, Berlin
Photograph looking straight down onto a built landscape.
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Men's Fashions
Display window advertising men&#39;s suits.
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Motion Picture (Times Square)

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City Neighborhood, from Kleine Grosz Mappe

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Ants (Ameisen), from "In the Shadows" ("Im Schatten")
A group of laborers, wearing hats and jackets, walks from viewer's right to left along a street littered with garbage. The two in the front carry shovels. In the background is an industrial landscape, dirty and in disrepair.
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No Heroes Developed
This vertical oriented print shows a robot sitting on a chair with a revolver in his right hand. 
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Wilmington, North Carolina, from "Master Prints Volume II"

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The Archeologists IV (Gli Archeologi IV); Plate VI from the suite "Metamorphosis" (Metamorphosis is underlined)

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Brainiac 5 no puede ganar contra tres maquinas
This vertically oriented print shows the cockpit of a car above, and early computers below. Between two of the computers sits a man with a chess board in front of him. Two other men look on, one having a speech balloon above his head which says "n<em>o puede ganar contra tres maquinas" or "</em>You can not win against three machines." Each machine has a speech balloon which says "Jaque."
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Watch out for miracles... new hope for better babies
A portrait image in two tones of blue printed slightly off match, showing a man at the center dressed in a white shirt, tie and slacks, with dark-rimmed glasses. The man is leaning over a automoton/robot, which is seated to the left of him. On the right and to the back, are two more standing robots. Each robot has humanoid features like a face, torso, arms, hands, legs, and feet with boots on. Two of the robots, one seated and one to the back at the center, have their internal workings revealed with their central torso panel removed, showing wires and indeterminate parts. 
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Fleetwood Cadillac Plant, from "Detroit Focus 2000"

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39 Items in this Learning Collection
Boy with Red Kerchief
A shirtless boy sits wearing blue pants with a red kerchief on his head.
Collection Object
L'Appollo del Belvedere

Collection Object
Plaid Shawl
A portrait of a woman seated on a sofa. The figure wears a dress complemented by a plaid shawl around her shoulders. She looks out beyond the pictorial space of the image.
Collection Object
Business-Men's Class
In an interior space, a large group of men stand with their right arms out and their left elbows bent with their hands on their hips. They are all facing a man whose back is to the viewer. He is also holding his right arm out.
Collection Object
Carrot with cricket

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Study for 'The Daughters of the Mist'

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Join the Navy, the Service for Fighting Men

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Gee! I Wish I Were a Man - I'd Join the Navy, Naval Reserve, or Coast Guard

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For Your Boy - United War Work Campaign

Collection Object
Portrait of Sir Frederick Leighton, PRA

Collection Object
Isadora Duncan
Drawing of a woman, kneeling, facing viewer, arms extended to the ground on the sides of her body, head leaning back. 
Collection Object
Isadora Duncan
A drawing of a woman standing, facing the viewer, with knees turned slightly to the left and arms extended to the sides, slightly raised. 
Collection Object
St. Michael Vanquishing Satan

Collection Object
Men's Fashions
Display window advertising men&#39;s suits.
Collection Object
Bust of Diana
Bust-length figure of a woman with head turned proper left, down-turned eyelids and crescent moon atop head; executed in bronze with a rich, dark patina on a brownish stone base.<br />
Collection Object
Roses and Flowers in a Glass
This painting depicts a glass vase with roses, phlox, and other flowers standing on a table. One pink rose lies next to the vase on the table; the background is an undifferentiated background of brown/tan.
Collection Object
F. Holland Day in Algerian Costume
Photograph of F. Holland Day in an "Algerian costume." Day sits cross-legged and looks down on his clasped hands resting in his lap.
Collection Object
Goat Herders Reverie

Collection Object
Young Woman by a Window
Painting featuring a woman wearing a pink and white dress with a train and bustle pulling back a curtain in front of an open window. The woman is in a room decorated with blue and green wallpaper matching the curtain and she stands in front of a table containing potted plants.&nbsp;
Collection Object
Charity (La Charité)
Painting of a woman holding two sleeping nude babies, wearing white fabric draped over her head and shoulders with abundant blue-green fabric wrapped and loosely gathered around the rest of her body standing in front of a lush background with areas of blue sky peaking through the foliage.
Collection Object
Vespasian hearing from one of his generals of the taking of Jerusalem by Titus
The Roman emperor Vespasian sits in an interior receiving a document from a standing figure to the right of the composition. The emperor is dressed in a white robe and sits on a red chair to the left of the composition. The interior is largely dark, with the exception of the emperor, whose figure is brightly lit.<br />The painting is in the original frame, which is constructed to resemble a Roman Temple with base, entablature, and fluted ionic pilasters.
Collection Object
Portrait of Whistler
This image shows a figure set back a bit from the viewer, and standing at an angle facing toward the left of the page. The figure is dressed in a black suit with a white shirt, and is standing on a fairly plain ground with just a few black lines. The figure's hair and outfit blend into the black background.
Collection Object
Judgement of Solomon

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Ces dames des chars

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Two Figures

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La glace à main

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Head of a Dog

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The Seasons
Four women pose in an outdoor setting. Three women sit on the ground in light dresses, one reads and the other two look toward her book. One woman stands, leaning against a tree that frames the left-most side of the image; she wears a dark dress, her back turned to the viewer.
Collection Object
Balzac, The Open Sky
This photogravure is one of a series of photographs commissioned by Auguste Rodin of his statue of the French writer Honoré de Balzac. The cloaked figure is off-center and facing to the right of the frame. The sculpture emerges from the landscape, illuminated by light from behind and to the left.
Collection Object
Le foyer de la Comedie-Francaise pendant le siege de Paris

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Les deux amis

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Le matin

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Les Petit Cavaliers, after Vélazquez
The image depicts thirteen men, arranged in three groups and facing in various directions, all standing in a generic outdoor setting. They wear seventeenth century-style costume consisting predominantly of black coats and trousers with white square collars. Several wear black hats, and one waves his hat in the air. The majority either carry or lean on swords. 
Collection Object
Le Chat et les fleurs
On a wooden ledge in the foreground, a cat rubs up against a clawed pot holding flowers. The feline's coat is dark with the exception of a white strip running from its belly up to its chin.  An iron railing spans the width of the background. A second pot of flowers without clawed feet is visible behind the cat; some of its flowers appear to be growing through the lattice of the railing. 
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Bathers

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The Bathers (large plate)

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Bathers

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Croquis d'Eté. Pl.39: On m'a conseillé les bains froids pour...maigrir!...

Collection Object
Soldier

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Men's Fashions

Accession Number
1974/1.107

Title
Men's Fashions

Artist(s)
Eugène Atget

Artist Nationality
French (culture or style)

Object Creation Date
1925

Medium & Support
gold-toned gelatin silver print on paper

Dimensions
10 in x 13 in (25.4 cm x 33.02 cm);19 3/10 in x 14 3/10 in (49.05 cm x 36.35 cm);13 in x 10 in (33.02 cm x 25.4 cm);9 in x 6 4/5 in (22.86 cm x 17.3 cm)

Credit Line
Museum Purchase

Label copy
In Men's Fashions, Atget provides an opportunity for viewers to see in front of and behind the camera simulatneously. In this oblique view of a Parisian shop window, reflections of trees and architecture along the Avenue des Gobelins blend with a stage storefront tableau of dapperly dressed mannequins. By framing the photograph this way, Atget creates an eerie scene in which the mannequins, their bodies fragmented by opaque reflections of the city street, appear animate within the shadowy interior of the shop. In Bar de Cabaret a mirror is similarly framed from an indirect angle, so that the interior and exterior of the bar seem to collide in the reflective surface.

Atget was one of the first photographers to emphasize such clever visual juxtapositions. He wandered the city taking in its strange visual delights, both with his eyes and his camera. This practice was in the tradition of the nineteenth-century Parisian figure of the flâneur, the "passionate spectator" of metropolitan life, immortalized by French poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867). The chance encounters apprehended through such invested looking later became the staple of both Surrealist and documentary photography.

Subject matter
This photograph depicting the display window of a men's fashion store is one of Atget's most iconic images. The juxtaposition of a headless mannequin in a dapper suit with the ghoulishly grinning mannequins on either side of him reveal Atget's interest in the idiosyncracies of the world around him, and suggest why his work appealed so strongly to the Surrealists. Particularly effective in this print is the reflection of the street in the plate glass window of the store, making it difficult to differentiate the physical world from its mirror image.

Physical Description
Display window advertising men's suits.

Primary Object Classification
Photograph

Collection Area
Photography

Rights
If you are interested in using an image for a publication, please visit http://umma.umich.edu/request-image for more information and to fill out the online Image Rights and Reproductions Request Form. Keywords
Urban life
fashions
mannequins (costume equipment)
menswear
modern and contemporary art
reflections
reflections (perceived properties)
stores
suits (main garments)
textiles
window
windows

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