Partisans juifs, Marseille 21 août 1944

by Julia Pirotte

Artist Julia Pirotte (Polen, 1907 - 2000)

Alternate Title

Judiska partisaner, Marseille 21 augusti 1944
Jewish partisans, Marseille 21 August 1944

Date1944

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsBildmått: 29,5 × 23,5 cm Passepartout: 50 × 40 cm

ClassificationPhotography

Credit LineDonation 1982 from the artist

Countries

Poland, Frankrike

On view

Stockholm

RoomStudy Gallery 08: Screen 20

Object NumberFM 1982 017 008

About the artworkJulia Pirotte 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 Signerad i kulspets 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]

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