Title
untitled
circa 1930
Artist
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Details
- Date
- circa 1930
- Media category
- Photograph
- Materials used
- gelatin silver photograph
- Dimensions
- 22.8 x 29.3 cm image/sheet
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Gael Newton, foundation curator of photographs, in memory of her Art Gallery of New South Wales colleagues, Ursula Prunster and Linda Slutzkin 2011. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 178.2011
- Artist information
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Philiberte de Flaugergues
Works in the collection
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About
Philiberte de Flaugergues is among the many fascinating but largely forgotten female photographers from the early 20th century who broke through the ranks to work professionally as a fashion photographer between the 1920s and 40s. She is, however, better known for her female nude photographs set within highly symbolic mise-en-scène. In Flaugergues’s surrealist-influenced 'untitled' [woman in a mirror with pearl necklace] c1930, the sensuality of her erotic photographs is combined with the glamorous romanticism of her fashion work to produce an exquisitely metaphysical portrait study.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
What's in a face? aspects of portrait photography, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 24 Sep 2011–05 Feb 2012
Shadow Catchers, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 22 Feb 2020–03 Jan 2021