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

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

Where to find it

  • Unlabelled photograph album

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