Places Proust haunted on the 100th anniversary of his birth: Celeste Albaret, Marcel Proust's housekeeper, seated with hands folded, France.

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Places Proust haunted on the 100th anniversary of his birth: Celeste Albaret, Marcel Proust's housekeeper, seated with hands folded, France.
Places Proust haunted on the 100th anniversary of his birth: Celeste Albaret, Marcel Proust's housekeeper, seated with hands folded, France.
Artist/Maker (American, born France, born 1946)
Datec. 1971
MediumVintage gelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall: 10 3/8 × 7 in. (26.4 × 17.8 cm) Image: 10 1/4 × 6 7/8 in. (26 × 17.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2022.15.254
Not on view
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Provenance 2022: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art)
From the collection of Charles-Henri Favrod, the founding director of the Musée de l'Elysée de la Photographie in Lausanne, Switzerland
Markings Verso, lower right, (stamped and crossed out): "[© GILLES PERESS / MAGNUM DISTRIBUTION]"
Inscribed Verso, upper right: "FCC F 2891"
Verso, upper left: "([Illegible French], Celeste Albaret: Gouverante de Proust", "GP-F-06" and "2000-"
Verso, center: "105x150", "F1B-S-11/25A" and "P.3"
Verso, lower left: "PERESS, Gilles"
Verso, lower right, "60", "71B-B-11/25A" (Crossed out)
Futurist and founder of the Hudson Institute Herman Kahn with hands on his hips.
Futurist and founder of the Hudson Institute Herman Kahn with hands on his hips.
Gilles Peress
Date: c. 1980
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2022.15.252
Pollution near Mantes-la-Jolie, France
Pollution near Mantes-la-Jolie, France
Gilles Peress
Date: 1971
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2022.15.255
Futurist and founder of the Hudson Institute Herman Kahn wearing name tag.
Futurist and founder of the Hudson Institute Herman Kahn wearing name tag.
Gilles Peress
Date: c. 1980
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2022.15.253
Time On His Hands: Abbott "Abbie" Hoffman, leader of the Youth International Party (Yippies), has time to think after he surrendered to authorities in Chicago Thursday to begin serving a 15-day jail sentence for resisting arrest. Hoffman surrendered after having exhausted appeals possibilities arrest. Hoffman surrendered after having exhausted appeals possibilities from his conviction stemming from the 1968 Democratic National Convention disturbances
Time On His Hands: Abbott "Abbie" Hoffman, leader of the Youth International Party (Yippies), has time to think after he surrendered to authorities in Chicago Thursday to begin serving a 15-day jail sentence for resisting arrest. Hoffman surrendered after having exhausted appeals possibilities arrest. Hoffman surrendered after having exhausted appeals possibilities from his conviction stemming from the 1968 Democratic National Convention disturbances
Date: December 3, 1970
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.294
Birth of a Vase, Sevres, France
Birth of a Vase, Sevres, France
René Zuber
Date: 1930s
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.114
First Appearance: Wallace D. Muhammad, gestures as he speaks at McCormick Place in Chicago Sunday. It is his first public appearance since he succeeded his father a leader of the Black Muslims. He called for stronger family ties among Muslims and for supremacy of the mind. He also said that Black Muslims should respect whites who respect blacks.
First Appearance: Wallace D. Muhammad, gestures as he speaks at McCormick Place in Chicago Sunday. It is his first public appearance since he succeeded his father a leader of the Black Muslims. He called for stronger family ties among Muslims and for supremacy of the mind. He also said that Black Muslims should respect whites who respect blacks.
Date: June 16, 1975
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.267
Our Watering-Places: Views at Long Branch, from "Harper's Weekly"
Our Watering-Places: Views at Long Branch, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published August 26, 1865
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.72
Vietnam Shepard: Carrying a walking stick over his shoulder and his M16 rifle in his hand, a soldier of the U.S. 25th Infantry Division herds a group of Vietnamese families to a helicopter landing zone for interrogation. The Vietnamese were rounded up after a brief firefight at a village near Duc Pho, about 325 miles north of Saigon, during a search and clear operation
Vietnam Shepard: Carrying a walking stick over his shoulder and his M16 rifle in his hand, a soldier of the U.S. 25th Infantry Division herds a group of Vietnamese families to a helicopter landing zone for interrogation. The Vietnamese were rounded up after a brief firefight at a village near Duc Pho, about 325 miles north of Saigon, during a search and clear operation
Unknown artist
Date: August 1, 1967
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2023.12.188
Aid and Protection: pistol drawn and his body protecting that of wounded U.S. paratrooper, medic PFC Andrew G. Brown of Chicago searches jungle for sniper. He and Spec. 4 Gerald Levy of New York crawled through the jungle to dress the wounds of the unidentified paratrooper while a live grenade, ready to go ff at the slightest movement, lay nearby. Action took place yesterday near Thuong Lang, Vietnam
Aid and Protection: pistol drawn and his body protecting that of wounded U.S. paratrooper, medic PFC Andrew G. Brown of Chicago searches jungle for sniper. He and Spec. 4 Gerald Levy of New York crawled through the jungle to dress the wounds of the unidentified paratrooper while a live grenade, ready to go ff at the slightest movement, lay nearby. Action took place yesterday near Thuong Lang, Vietnam
Horst Faas
Date: 1965
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.127
RAAF Helicopter Ambulances in Vietnam Fighting: Among the many operational tasks performed by the versatile RAAF Iroquois helicopters of No. 9 Squadron in Vietnam, a new one-- aerial ambulance for wounded Viet Cong prisoners-- has been added. They were called on to fly two prisoners-- one a stretcher case who needed medical treatment in flight and the other blind-folded walking wounded case-- from the battle area to hospital at Vung Tau. Since their arrival in Vietnam with the Australian Task Force in June, the RAAF Iroquois have been used for carrying troops and wounded, dropping ammunition to hard pressed Australian troops, dropping leaflets and carrying out aerial reconnaissance patrols...
RAAF Helicopter Ambulances in Vietnam Fighting: Among the many operational tasks performed by the versatile RAAF Iroquois helicopters of No. 9 Squadron in Vietnam, a new one-- aerial ambulance for wounded Viet Cong prisoners-- has been added. They were called on to fly two prisoners-- one a stretcher case who needed medical treatment in flight and the other blind-folded walking wounded case-- from the battle area to hospital at Vung Tau. Since their arrival in Vietnam with the Australian Task Force in June, the RAAF Iroquois have been used for carrying troops and wounded, dropping ammunition to hard pressed Australian troops, dropping leaflets and carrying out aerial reconnaissance patrols...
Date: September 6, 1965
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2022.15.288
UN Secretary General U Thant, Women Strike for Peace receiving United Nations honor on Women Strike for Peace 10th anniversary
UN Secretary General U Thant, Women Strike for Peace receiving United Nations honor on Women Strike for Peace 10th anniversary
Dorothy Marder
Date: December 18, 1971
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2022.15.135
The "shooting gallery" raid was over and the officers were leaving when from the back room an officer called for us to return. He had found something. Crouched and terrified in a closet was an addict, tourniquet on his upper arm, holding a syringe in his hand, from the series "Police Work"
The "shooting gallery" raid was over and the officers were leaving when from the back room an officer called for us to return. He had found something. Crouched and terrified in a closet was an addict, tourniquet on his upper arm, holding a syringe in his hand, from the series "Police Work"
Leonard Freed
Date: 1976
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2014.8.43