BIB_ID
454105
Accession number
MA 5040 PH 16
Credit line
Paris Review.
Description
1 photographic print
Notes
Part of Series 3 of The Paris Review Archives, which consists of photographs that were removed from the Series 1 (Editorial Correspondence) and Series 2 (Interviews) files, replaced with preservation photocopies, and placed in this series. Each folder contains a sheet describing where the items were removed from.
20.9 x 18.3 cm (image); 23.8 x 18.3 cm (sheet)
Inscriptions/Markings
Stamp on verso reads: 46 Place Jules Ferry 46 / Montrouge-Seine / Photo / Robert Doisneau / ALE 35-59 / C. Cheques Posteaux - Paris 395-795 - R.M. 68.987. Numbere pencilled below stamp: 13507.
Provenance
Paris Review.
Summary
Head and shoulders portrait of novelist and short story writer Blaise Cendrars (1887-1961), taken outdoors, cigarette in his mouth, barely visible between the blades of an enormous stand of agave.
Medium
Gelatin silver print
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