© Julia Pirotte
Autoportrait, Marseille
Artist
Julia Pirotte
(Polen, 1907 - 2000)
Alternate Title
- Självporträtt, Marseille
- Self Portrait, Marseille
Date1942/ca 1975
DimensionsBildmått: 19,3 × 15,6 cm
Passepartout: 40 × 35 cm
Classification
Credit LineDonation 1982 från konstnären
Object NumberFM 1982 017 012
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. Here's a self-portrait from Marseille in 1942.
Description
Julia Pirotte
Signatures, inscriptions and marks
Titel i blyerts på fotografiets baksida, Copyrightstämpel på fotografiets baksida
Selected exhibition history
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 i Moderna Museet, Stockholm
En annan historia: Se världen! (den 16 april 2011 - den 31 december 2011)
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
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]