テート・ギャラリーさんのインスタグラム写真 - (テート・ギャラリーInstagram)「#WorkOfTheWeek is Brassai’s ‘Young Lesbian at Monocle’ 🍾 In 1931-2, Brassai would often walk around the city at night, carrying his camera, tripod, magnesium flash powder and a box of 24 glass plate negatives to photograph Parisian nightlife. He believed that ‘this underground world represented Paris… at its most alive, it’s most authentic.’ This photograph was taken on a visit to Le Monocle, a lesbian night club in Montmartre. Brassai befriended a regular club visitor called Claude and accompanied her there one night in 1932. He approached several people, asking their permission to photograph them and setting up his camera, then taking a small number of photographs of them. The sitter is anonymous and masculine, wearing a suit, cravat and large gold ring with her hair waxed down. Historians have argued that Brassai’s presence as a heterosexual man in a lesbian space creates a distance between him and the sitter, perpetuating the representation of the lesbian as ‘other’. It is nonetheless a rare glimpse of early 20th century queer history and idenitity.」2月22日 22時04分