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Woman's Necklace
Maasai
Animal hide, beads, shell, and metal
Art Institute of Chicago

Affluences in Europe: with the new wave of prosperity, trade or luxury items flourish. Record sales are soaring, despite their relatively high price. This big store on the Champs Elysees is open seven days a week, late into the night, and is crowded with customers all the time, Paris
Erich Lessing
Gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Political slogans for the forthcoming elections covering the walls of the Madrid University, Spain
Leonard Freed
Gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Affluences in Europe: in France, prosperity immediately translates itself into good food. The variety of cuts of meat sold in the market is staggering: everything from barbecued chickens to calf hearts, from the lushest whole hams to tripe is lovingly displayed in neat rows decorated with green leaves and herbs, a butcher-shop in Paris
Erich Lessing
Gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Fashion photograph: Woman in White Gloves Descending Stairs with One Hand in Pocket
Gordon Coster
Gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Miss Rita Renoir thinks that striptease gets its effect on the viewer, as it is done with mind and feeling, more than with the body. To demonstrate this theory, Rita Renoir performed for us a "striptease of the face", from the series "Strip-Tease"
Frank Horvat
Gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

The Boy Who Watches Ships Go By
Ingrid Pollard
Photographic emulsion on stretched canvas
Art Institute of Chicago

Places Proust haunted on the 100th anniversary of his birth: Celeste Albaret, Marcel Proust's housekeeper, talking, France
Gilles Peress
Gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Rehearsal in Costume, from the series "La Télévision"
Frank Horvat
Gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Affluences in Europe: Turin's auto show is he latest in the year of all those held in Europe, and also the biggest. Practically all of Turin works for Fiat the salon, held in the brand-new exhibition hall, is attended by thousands. This year's show, the 39th, attracted record crowds
Erich Lessing
Gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

The Boy Who Watches Ships Go By
Ingrid Pollard
Photographic emulsion on stretched canvas
Art Institute of Chicago

Teacher watching boy write on chalkboard next to poster, Guinea
Marc Riboud
Gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

The Boy Who Watches Ships Go By
Ingrid Pollard
Photographic emulsion on stretched canvas
Art Institute of Chicago

The Boy Who Watches Ships Go By
Ingrid Pollard
Photographic emulsion on stretched canvas
Art Institute of Chicago

The Boy Who Watches Ships Go By
Ingrid Pollard
Photographic emulsion on stretched canvas
Art Institute of Chicago

The Boy Who Watches Ships Go By
Ingrid Pollard
Photographic emulsion on stretched canvas
Art Institute of Chicago

Street Blockade, Merafe
Santu Mofokeng
Gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

The actor Fujikawa Tomokichi II as Okaru, wife of Kanpei
Utagawa Kuniyasu
Color woodblock print; oban
Art Institute of Chicago

Pine tree
Nagasawa Rosetsu
Hanging scroll, ink and colors on silk
Art Institute of Chicago

Ottawa Opera House, Ottawa, Illinois, Title Sheet
Peter Bonnett Wight
Gouache on paper
Art Institute of Chicago

Bowl
Rebecca Lucario
Earthenware and slip
Art Institute of Chicago

William Edmondson, Sculptor
Edward Weston
Gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein
Gelatin silver print with applied letters
Art Institute of Chicago

Ghosts
Yao Luan
Album of twelve leaves; ink on paper
Art Institute of Chicago