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Marinus
Projet pour le 14 juillet 1940
1949
Gelatin silver print, photomontage
14.8 x 29.3 cm
Bassenge Photography Auctions
Photography, 6 June 2018, Lot: 4267
LL/82602
This image depicts the fatal disconcern of the French cultural and political elite shortly before the German attack on Poland. The following people are satirically portrayed: Edouard Herriot, Paul Reyand, Jean Zay, Louis, Marin, Edouard Daladier, Leon Blum, Maurie Torez, Pierre Laval, Georges Mandel, Jules Jeanneney and Albert Lebrun.
This image was published in Marianne, no. 352, July 19, 1939.
Lit.: Gunner Byskov/Bodo von Dewitz (eds.). Marinus Heartfield. Politische Fotomontagen der 1930er Jahre, Göttingen 2008, ill. pp. 104-105 (cat. no. 23).
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