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Maurice TABARD photograph 2 / France 1940s #938785

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Maurice TABARD photograph 2 / France 1940s #938785
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Encampment, Algeria 1940s <p> Vintage gelatin silver print
5 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches (15 x 19.5 cm)
Maurice Tabard signature
and Paris Studio Tronchet stamp on verso <p> Maurice TABARD (1897-1984)
Avant-garde photographer Maurice Tabard (born in Lyon) experimented with a number of techniques; including solarization, double exposure, and photomontage. <p> Tabard&#39;s father, a silk manufacturer and amateur photographer, left France with his son in 1914 to work in the silk mills of Paterson, New Jersey. The young Tabard worked as a silk designer during the day and studied painting at night. A few years later the Tabards moved to New York City, where Maurice studied briefly at the New York Institute of Photography. <p> Throughout the 1930s-50s Tabard continued to produce his own experimental work while pursuing various commercial jobs for Deberny-Peignot publishers, Pathe Films, Gaumont Films, the French government, Harper&#39;s Bazaar in Europe and the United States, and Paul Linwood Gittings Studio, New York and worked as a freelance photographer from 1948-65. In the mid-1960s he retired from photography and in 1980 moved to Nice. <p> Over the years Tabard&#39;s work was included in numerous exhibitions, including Modern European Photography at the Julian Levy Gallery, New York (1932), Photographic Surrealism at the New Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cleveland (1979), and L&#39;Amour Fou: Photography and Surrealism at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, ...
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#: 414810</td>
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<tr><td>Condition:See Description</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Country:France</td></tr>

<tr><td>Height:5.75</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:7.5</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:Maurice TABARD photograph 2 / France 1940s</td></tr>



<tr><td>Location:New York</td></tr>
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