#lisette model

[casadabiqueira]

Sleeping by the Seine, Paris

Lisette Model, ca. 1933-1938

[seventh-victim]

Lower East Side, Woman with bag, New York c.1947 (photo: Lisette Model)

[joeinct]

Man with Pamphlets, Photo by Lisette Model, 1938

[patheticesque]

Reflections, Rockefeller Center, New York (1942), photographed by Lisette Model.

[semioticapocalypse]

Lisette Model. Woman at Coney Island. 1939

I Am Collective Memories   •    Follow me, — says Visual Ratatosk

[fragrantblossoms]

Lisette Model.  Vincennes Zoo, Paris, c. 1933-1938.  

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Seen on the street, 1940.

Photo: Lisette Model via Galerie Julian Sander/Artsy

[oldnewyorklandia]

Lisette Model. Café Zanzibar, New York, c.1945.  

[lascitasdelashoras]

Lisette Model - Coliseo, Roma

[casadabiqueira]

Sleeping by the Seine, Paris

Lisette Model, ca. 1933-1938

[seventh-victim]

Lower East Side, Timo cigars, New York 1945 (photo: Lisette Model)

[unevaguedeprintemps]

Lisette Model

Lisette Model era tanto elegante quanta sconcia. Era capace di intrattenere gli angeli in cielo e sbirciare impudicamente sotto le loro vesti.

Nel suo lavoro c’era qualcosa in agguato, un’essenza profondamente animata.

Critica, ma anche fonte di vita: abbracciava la mortalità che ci attende tutti sin dalla nascita,sapendo che ogni impulso si atrofizza subito se non viene fissato in un’immagine.

La fotografia era l’unico mezzo adatto a quella dinamica, e Lisette l’abbracciò in tutti i suoi gesti"

Larry Fink

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[thesnakeandthemoon]

Portrait of Valeska Gert

by Lisette Model

[semioticapocalypse]

Lisette Model. Singer at the Cafe Metropol. New York. 1946

I Am Collective Memories   •    Follow me, — says Visual Ratatosk

[istumbled-upon]

"I am a passionate lover of the snapshot, because of all photographic images, it comes closest to the truth … the snapshooter['s] pictures have an apparent disorder and imperfection which is exactly their appeal and their style... The snapshot has no pretense or ambition. Innocence is the quintessence of the snapshot. I wish to distinguish between innocence and ignorance. Innocence is one of the highest forms of being and ignorance is one of the lowest." Lisette Model

[newyorkthegoldenage]

A well-dressed gent on the Lower East Side, 1939-45.

Photo: Lisette Model via the National Gallery of Canada