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Madame Gilles and her Husband - Vintage Photo - 1935

1935

King George 6th and Mother Queen is a photograph realized in the 1940s. Good conditions. The artwork is realized in a well-balanced composition.

Mrs. Gilles is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the Early 20th Century. Good conditions.

Mrs. Gilles is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the Early 20th Century Good conditions.

Old Days  - Historical Photo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the Early 20th Century. Good conditions.

Photography made by Brassai in 1935 in Paris. Gelatin silver bromide. Stamped by Brassai.

Signed by the photographer on the verso

Signed by the photographer.

Remie Lohse was born in Puerto Rico, studied painting in Denmark, and settled in New York in 1928, where he became a professional photographer. In the 1930s he was a freelancer who specialized in advertising and magazine features, and shot covers for Vogue. If he often focused on the high life, seen in this couple stepping out on the town, he also shot humble subjects. He was more interested in his art than a particular milieu, and many of his photographs are little masterpieces. His contemporary Gilbert Seldes, the noted Vanity Fair media critic and “public intellectual” (not to mention father of actress Marian Seldes), featured Lohse in his 1934 book 'This is New York, The First Modern Photographic Book of New York.' In 1939 Lohse came out with his own book titled 'The Miniature Camera in Professional Hands.' Our photograph was one of three shot by Lohse for a 1934 Vogue article titled “High Spots and Low Music." If the photograph (image size 4 1/4" x 6") show a couple making the nocturnal rounds of Manhattan restaurants, bars, and jazz clubs, the story itself also covers the daytime meeting places of the ladies who lunch. The twist is that Lohse’s model was the author herself, Elena Mumm Thornton, and her husband James Worth...