Affluences in Europe: with the new wave of prosperity, trade or luxury items flourish. Record sales are soaring, despite their relatively high price. This big store on the Champs Elysees is open seven days a week, late into the night, and is crowded with customers all the time, Paris, 1961

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Affluences in Europe: with the new wave of prosperity, trade or luxury items flourish. Record sales are soaring, despite their relatively high price. This big store on the Champs Elysees is open seven days a week, late into the night, and is crowded with customers all the time, Paris, 1961
Affluences in Europe: with the new wave of prosperity, trade or luxury items flourish. Record sales are soaring, despite their relatively high price. This big store on the Champs Elysees is open seven days a week, late into the night, and is crowded with customers all the time, Paris, 1961
Artist/Maker (Austrian, 1923 – 2018)
Date1961
MediumVintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall: 6 5/8 × 10 in. (16.8 × 25.4 cm) Image: 6 5/8 × 10 in. (16.8 × 25.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2022.15.238
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, center, (label adhered to back): "[42-19 WIth the new wave of prosperity, trade or luxury items fluorishes. / Record sales are soaring, despite the relatively high price. / This big store on the Champ Elysees is open seven days a week, late / into the night, and is crowded with customers all the time."
Verso, lower left (stamped): "[© Erich Lessing- magnum]"
Verso, lower right, (stamped): "[illegible]"
Published References Magnum image reference PAR445718
Inscribed Verso, upper center: "FCCF 26847"
Verso, left corner: "EL-F-31" and "3500"
Verso, center: "G1-18-42 /19"

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