Lisette Model, Albert-Alberta, Hubert's Forty-Second Street Flea Circus, New York, Gelatin silver print, c. 1945
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.

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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.

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