An amazing body of work, this. I had quite of number of these in my exhibition 'Make Life Beautiful!', on the dandy in photography.
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Jen Evans
One of over 400 self portraits of the Countess of Castiglione by Pierre-Louis Pierson in the 1860s. Best known as Napoleon III's mistress, she had a keen interest in camera play, staking claims to self representation that defied age and expectation.
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