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Photo Booth Portraits

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Author

People cited Marcel Fourrier, Melmoth, Max Morise, Jacques Prévert, Albert Valentin, Jeannette Tanguy, Suzanne Muzard, ép. Cordonnier, André Breton, Paul Éluard, Max Ernst

Description

A series of photo booth photographs taken circa 1929, used by André Breton to frame Magritte’s painting, I Do Not See the Woman Hidden in the Forest.

Eleven prints (some with several portraits on the same film strip). These photographs were part of the photo booth photography used by André Breton to frame Magritte’s painting, I Do Not See the Woman Hidden in the Forest, reproduced in The Surrealist Revolution, No. 12, December 15, 1929.

Pictured among others: André Breton, Max Ernst, Paul Éluard, Suzanne Muzard. [Auction catalogue, 2003]

Bibliography

- La Révolution surréaliste n°12, Paris, 15 décembre 1929, rep.s.p. (reproduction partielle avec un tableau de Magritte)
- Paris, Musée national d'art moderne - Centre Georges Pompidou, André Breton, la beauté convulsive, 1991, rep.p. 193 (image 6)
- Katia Sowels (dir.), Le Surréalisme d'abord et toujours, Transformer le monde, Paris, Centre Pompidou, 2024, ill. 1 rep. p. 24

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