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Eckstein with Lipstick

Date

1930

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Department

Photographs

Institution

Getty Museum

Kläre Eckstein's short haircut, tweezed eyebrows, and makeup were part of the fashion for urban women between the two world wars. By photographing Eckstein reflected in a beveled dressing-table mirror, the artist suggested the multifaceted nature of her personality. Eckstein was a professional dancer in Darmstadt, so her doubling in the mirror also represents her private identity and her theatrical persona. Casually applying lipstick with her left hand, Eckstein draws the composition together with her right hand, which connects her fragmented images across the mirror.

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