Rue Lepic, Paris
Strömholm practiced painting and the graphic arts before taking up photography in the late 1940s and is best known today for a series of sensitive, unsensational portrayals of a community of transsexuals living in the Place Blanche section of Paris in the late 1950s. This melancholic study of a damaged painting in the rue Lepic from the same moment refers back to the artist’s earliest photographs showing the worn and weathered surfaces of walls; the violent gash through the forehead of the painting’s subject punctuates Strömholm’s belief that art, like the residue of trauma, always points to something beyond that which is visible.
Artwork Details
- Title: Rue Lepic, Paris
- Artist: Christer Strömholm (Swedish, Stockholm 1918–2002 Stockholm)
- Date: 1959
- Medium: Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions: Image: 16.4 x 21.7 cm (6 7/16 x 8 9/16 in.)
Sheet: 17.7 x 23.7 cm (6 15/16 x 9 5/16 in.) - Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Twentieth-Century Photography Fund, 2011
- Object Number: 2011.285
- Rights and Reproduction: © Christer Strömholm, Christer Strömholm Estate
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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