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Fountain, Rome.
Creator
Lisette ModelAmerican Photographer · 1901–1983
All works by this person →Lisette Model began her creative life as a student of music. Through avant-garde composer Arnold Schönberg, with whom she studied piano, she became exposed to the Expressionist painters of early twentieth-century Vienna. She never formally studied photography but took it up in the 1930s while living in Paris. An early piece of advice received from a colleague--"Never photograph anything you are no
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- 1953–1966
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
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- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
With water streaming almost obscenely from its mouth, this female headed fountain in Rome presents an uninviting image. The foul, dark staining from the water seepage just below the mouth makes the head appear as though it has been ravaged by an unknown illness. Its wide, round eyes stare out as if in horror at some scene out of the camera's range. Likewise, the fountain's crumbling surfaces wear unsettling textures, exposing the ravages of time and the elements upon the once-pristine monument. Lisette Model photographed the fountain up close in order to focus on the decay and ruin that lend the picture a distinct sense of foreboding.
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