Museum Exhibition
Dress Codes: Portrait Photographs from the Collection
Art Institute of Chicago
November 18, 2017 – April 22, 2018
This exhibition presents five series—from the 1870s to the present—that exemplify the power of clothing to shape identities in front of the camera.
Exhibition artworks
Representative work
Etienne Carjat
Charles Baudelaire (French poet, critic, and writer, 1821-1867)
c. 1863
Woodburytype, from the periodical “Galerie Contemporaine Littéraire, Artistique” (1878), volume 5
23.1 × 18.1 cm (9 1/8 × 7 3/16 in.)
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Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon)
Champfleury (born Jules François Felix Fleury-Husson, French critic and novelist, 1821-1889)
c. 1855/59
Woodburytype, from the periodical “Galerie Contemporaine Littéraire, Artistique” (1878), volume 6
Image/paper: 22.4 × 18.6 cm (8 7/8 × 7 3/8 in.); Mount: 34 × 26 cm (13 7/16 × 10 1/4 in.)
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Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon)
François Coppée (French poet and novelist, 1842-1908)
c. 1876
Woodburytype, from the periodical “Galerie Contemporaine Littéraire, Artistique” (1877), volume 2
Image/paper: 23.8 × 19.1 cm (9 3/8 × 7 9/16 in.); Mount: 34.1 × 26 cm (13 7/16 × 10 1/4 in.)
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Etienne Carjat
Alphonse Daudet (French novelist, 1849-1897)
c. 1876
Woodburytype, from the periodical “Galerie Contemporaine Littéraire, Artistique” (1876), volume 1
Image/paper: 19.3 × 16 cm (7 5/8 × 6 5/16 in.); Mount: 34.1 × 26 cm (13 7/16 × 10 1/4 in.)
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Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon)
Élie-Louis, duc Decazes (French statesman and diplomat, 1819-1886)
c. 1853/77
Woodburytype, from the periodical “Galerie Contemporaine Littéraire, Artistique” (1877), volume 2
Image/paper: 24 × 19.4 cm (9 1/2 × 7 11/16 in.); Mount: 34.2 × 26 cm (13 1/2 × 10 1/4 in.)
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Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon)
Antoine Gustave Droz (French writer, 1832-1895)
c. 1853/72
Woodburytype, from the periodical “Galerie Contemporaine Littéraire, Artistique” (1877), volume 4
Image/paper: 23.7 × 19 cm (9 3/8 × 7 1/2 in.); Mount: 34.1 × 26 cm (13 7/16 × 10 1/4 in.)
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Etienne Carjat
Alexandre Dumas (French novelist and playwright, 1802-1870)
c. 1876
Woodburytype, from the periodical “Galerie Contemporaine Littéraire, Artistique” (1878), volume 5
Image/paper: 23 × 19 cm (9 1/16 × 7 1/2 in.); Mount: 34.2 × 26.1 cm (13 1/2 × 10 5/16 in.)
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