Bistro, Paris by Roberta Fineberg, Black-and-White Street Photography, France Music signed lower right margin recto

signed lower right margin recto by the photographer

and artist Patti Smith lived together in New York’s Chelsea Hotel where Mapplethorpe started shooting Polaroids to use in his collages

which prove to be whimsical and aesthetic

it captures African American life in the 1960s

Bistro, Paris by Roberta Fineberg, Black-and-White Street Photography, France Music signed lower right margin rectoA black and white image shot on film by Roberta Fineberg becomes an abstract chiaroscuro portrait of an elegant young woman at a French bistro was she a contemporary version of Lulu Brooks from the 1920s? Paris of the 1980s was enamored with the glamour of American movie stars from classic Hollywood films that celebrated style. Bistro, Paris, France, 1989 by Roberta Fineberg is a 14" x 11" signed gelatin silver print (analog) in an edition of 5.