Pierre MOLINIER (Agen 1900 - Bordeaux 1976) Standing Self-Portrait Circa 1955. Period silver print. Bearing annotations on the back and three artists' stamps. Size : 12.5 x 17.5 cm The photo can be dated by the surrounding halo: Pierre Molinier was inspired by the effects of Raymond Borde (founder of the Toulouse cinémathèque, close to the Surrealist movement and André Breton). Borde had shot the film "Molinier", based on a text by André Breton, between 1962 and 1964.

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