A nude man facing away from the viewer. Photograph by Henri, 192-.

Date:
[between 1920 and 1929?]
Reference:
2046178i
Part of:
The James Gardiner Collection.
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Credit

A nude man facing away from the viewer. Photograph by Henri, 192-. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Description

Photograph of a man posed naked and turned away from the viewer with his arm raised to the side of his face.

Publication/Creation

Paris : AN,[Alfred Noyer] [between 1920 and 1929?]

Physical description

1 photographic postcard ; 13.8 x 8.6 cm

Contributors

Lettering

Bears number: 204

Notes

This work is untitled: the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.
The following description was provided by James Gardiner: "An unidentified competitor in a male beauty pageant or bodybuilding competition. Typical of the kind of explicitly sexual imagery that became associated with Paris in the 1920s and 1930s."

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2046178i

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Where to find it

  • Unlabelled photograph album

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