© Julia Pirotte
Marseille
Artist
Julia Pirotte
(Polen, 1907 - 2000)
Date1942
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsBildmått: 29,9 × 24,3 cm
Passepartout: 50 × 40 cm
ClassificationPhotography
Credit LineDonation 1982 from the artist
Object NumberFM 1982 017 004
The artwork is not on display
About the artworkJulia Diament was born in Konskowola, a small Jewish town in Poland. She grew up in a nation racked by unrest. In the 1930s, she went to Belgium to study to be a journalist, and also studied photography there. When Germany attacked Belgium, she moved to Marseille, where she established herself as a photographer. The pictures she took there during the rebellion in 1944 have been used widely by news agencies and provide crucial documentation of the liberation of France in the Second World War. Pirotte’s images capture not only the resistance but also the arrival of the allies and the exhumations of those who died in the struggles.
Signatures, inscriptions and marks Titel i tusch på fotografiets baksida, Copyrightstämpel på fotografiets baksida Selected exhibition history Samlingsutställning 2019-2022 (den 1 februari 2019 - den 27 augusti 2023) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Se dig om i glädje. Sex fotografier - sex temperament. Kerstin Bernhard, Lotten von Düben, Julia Pirotte, Birgitta Ralston, Melissa Shook och Henny Lie (1981) Fotografiska Museet (FM) The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues Se dig om i glädje : sex fotografer : sex temperament : Kerstin Bernhard, Lotten von Düben, Julia Pirotte, Birgitta Ralston, Melissa Shook, Henny Lie : [Fotografiska Museet, Stockholm : 14 mars 1981 - 6 september 1981]
Signatures, inscriptions and marks Titel i tusch på fotografiets baksida, Copyrightstämpel på fotografiets baksida Selected exhibition history Samlingsutställning 2019-2022 (den 1 februari 2019 - den 27 augusti 2023) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Se dig om i glädje. Sex fotografier - sex temperament. Kerstin Bernhard, Lotten von Düben, Julia Pirotte, Birgitta Ralston, Melissa Shook och Henny Lie (1981) Fotografiska Museet (FM) The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues Se dig om i glädje : sex fotografer : sex temperament : Kerstin Bernhard, Lotten von Düben, Julia Pirotte, Birgitta Ralston, Melissa Shook, Henny Lie : [Fotografiska Museet, Stockholm : 14 mars 1981 - 6 september 1981]