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Mar. 30th, 2005 12:06 amили всё та же неизвестная из Сены
L'Inconnue de la Seine
The discovery of the body of a young woman in the Seine was in itself unremarkable, and yet her identity and the circumstances surrounding her death haunted the popular imagination for nearly a century, until this photograph came to light in Latin America. Moved by her beauty and serenity, an attendant at the city morgue had taken a death mask from her face and later mass-produced, it became a curio to be seen in houses across France. A number of writers fabricated fictions around her life and Man Ray even attempted a photographic resurrection but to no avail, the puzzle remained intractable.( Read more... )
L'Inconnue de la Seine
The discovery of the body of a young woman in the Seine was in itself unremarkable, and yet her identity and the circumstances surrounding her death haunted the popular imagination for nearly a century, until this photograph came to light in Latin America. Moved by her beauty and serenity, an attendant at the city morgue had taken a death mask from her face and later mass-produced, it became a curio to be seen in houses across France. A number of writers fabricated fictions around her life and Man Ray even attempted a photographic resurrection but to no avail, the puzzle remained intractable.( Read more... )
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