Female Impersonator, New York
Lisette Model immigrated to New York via Paris in 1938 and almost immediately became an activist in the American photographic scene. She was a lauded teacher at the New School for Social Research and also gave private lessons. Her teaching pedagogy and probing, unfiltered style of picture making were embraced by her many students, the popular press, and museums. Attracted to diverse social types—much like her student Diane Arbus would later be—she focused her lens on cabaret performers and musicians, beggars and the flamboyantly wealthy, as well as other denizens of New York nightlife in the 1940s and 1950s.
Artwork Details
- Title: Female Impersonator, New York
- Artist: Lisette Model (American (born Austria), 1901–1983)
- Date: ca. 1945
- Medium: Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions: Image: 13 11/16 × 9 1/4 in. (34.7 × 23.5 cm)
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Purchase, Alfred Stieglitz Society Gifts, 2019
- Object Number: 2019.34
- Rights and Reproduction: © The Lisette Model Foundation, Inc.
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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