- Artist/Maker:
- Lisette Model
- Bio:
- American, b. Austria, 1901-1983
- Title:
- Albert-Alberta, Hubert's Forty-Second Street Flea Circus, New York
- Date:
- c. 1945
- Medium:
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions:
- 30 11/16 × 21 1/8 in. (77.9 × 53.7 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Purchase: Photography Acquisitions Committee Fund
- Accession Number:
- 2001-50
- Copyright:
- © Lisette Model Foundation, Inc. (1983). Used by permission.
Not On View
Model was often drawn to subjects on the margins of society, such as this gender-bending performer. Albert-Alberta’s bawdy burlesque was one of many eccentric acts that drew crowds to Hubert’s Flea Circus in Times Square.
Information may change as a result of ongoing research.