Delicate Operation
Photograph
Delicate Operation
The Protocol of Pear Peeling
1962
Gelatin silver print
Image: 9 7/16 × 6 9/16 in. (24 × 16.6 cm)
Paper: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0279
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, verso BC: (Pear-Peeling) 6/62 15) DELICATE OPERATION: having quartered the pear, \ the pupil may now spear the pieces with her fork and peel them \ with her knife. Following inspection by Princess Jerome Murat, \ Etiquette Professor, the student may finally eat the pear. \ Credit: Nicholas Tikhomiroff © 1962 MAGNUM Photos
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