First Move
Photograph
First Move
The Protocol of Pear Peeling
1962
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 5/8 × 9 1/2 in. (16.8 × 24.1 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0278
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, verso BC: (Pear-Peeling) 6/62 14) FIRST MOVE: cut the pear in half. Under the \ bemused eye of the Princess Jerome Murat, Professor of Etiquette, \ the students go into action. The principal hazard is a pear \ too soft to hold the fork. \ Credit: Nicholas Tikhomiroff © 1962 MAGNUM Photos
