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Born April 14, 1912 • France
Died April 1, 1994 (aged 81) • France
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Simone Weil.
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Paul Rivet sits at his desk in an office lined with bookshelves and filing cabinets, wearing a suit and round glasses, Paris, 1946.
Paul Rivet
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Tree, Forest of Fontainebleau, albumen silver print from wet-collodion glass negative by Gustave Le Gray, c. 1856; in the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Brassaï
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Grand Prix of the ACF, Dieppe, gelatin silver print by Jacques-Henri Lartigue
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