Philiberte de Flaugergues
(France 1885–1977?)
- Title
- untitled
- Year
- circa 1930
- Media category
- Photograph
- Materials used
- gelatin silver photograph
- Dimensions
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22.8 x 29.3cm 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
- Accession number
- 178.2011
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
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.
