James Joyce Paris, 1928

by Berenice Abbott

$4,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Signed

Numbered lower left #50/100. Signed by the photographer lower right in pencil. Mounted. 14 x 10-1/2 inches Image . Framed and glazed. Item #325016 Photographed in Berenice Abbott's Paris studio, the iconic image of Joyce wearing a hat. According to Abbott, who relied on natural light for her Paris portraits of the 1920s, Joyce wore the hat because of the extreme sensitivity of his eyesight.

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