Horst Janssen (1929 – 1995)
Shoes
Conversation
Eleanor Antin, 100 Boots Move On, Sorrento Valley, California, June 24, 1972
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Eleanor Antin. 100 Boots Turn the Corner, May 17, 1971, 2:00 p.m.
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Larry Rivers, O'Hara Nude with Boots, 1954, Oil on canvas
97 × 53 in
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Mae West's 'Double Decker' shoes
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Mae West was a small woman. On screen, she looked larger because she wore shoes that made her taller. A feat of foot engineering, each shoe has two layers: white platform shoes with ankle straps bolted on top of a pair of wooden silver pumps.
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The shoes Humphrey Bogart used during scenes with Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca in 1942
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Unknown Egyptian or Turkish artisans, Armenian mother-of-pearl-inlaid wooden shoes (qabab), circa 1800
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Sabine Weiss, Shoes, Paris, 1955
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Papaioannou Voula, New Shoes, 1945
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Saul Leiter, Shoes of the shoeshine man, c.1951
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And the masterpiece:
Mahmoud Obaidi (B. 1966, Iraq)
Farewell Kiss, 2012
shoes and glue on canvas, in twenty four parts
World’s Oldest Socks
designed to be worn with sandals, in Egypt, 4th to 5th century
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A striped child’s sock from Egypt - 3rd century CE
(washing machine swallowed the other one)
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