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Horst P. Horst
Mainbocher Corset (Mme. Bernon), Paris, August 11
1939
Platinum palladium print, printed later.
9 3/4 x 7 in. (24.8 x 17.8 cm)
Signed, titled, dated, annotated in pencil and credit stamp on the verso; signature blindstamp in the margin.
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“It [Mainbocher Corset] was created by emotion. . . it was the last photo I took in Paris before the war. I left the studio at 4.00 a.m., went back to the house, picked up my bags and caught the 7.00 a.m. train to Le Havre to board the Normandie. The photograph is peculiar for me. While I was taking it, I was thinking of all that I was leaving behind.” - Horst P. Horst