Nice
Lisette Model
American, born Austria. 1901–1983
1938
A gelatin silver print in which Lisette Model captures a candid street portrait of a woman in Nice, using directness and scale to insist on her presence.
What hits you is the woman's commanding, unposed presence—her patterned dress and wide-brimmed hat fill the frame, the low, eye-level camera bringing her close and almost confrontational against a backdrop of parked cars.
A key example of Model's tough-minded humanist photography, it helped shift portraiture toward unvarnished everyday realism and influenced later American photographers who favored honesty over idealization.
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
13 5/8 × 10 3/4" (34.6 × 27.3 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
David H. McAlpin Fund
Accession
80.1941
Palette
Art Terms
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