La dent de folie... / J. Sennep. – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic photograph captures La dent de folie... / J. Sennep. in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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La dent de folie... / J. Sennep.
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Here the two dictators are the subjects, and the title, *La dent de folie*, puts them in the chair of a dental patient, with a "mad tooth" standing in for the trouble they cause. The caricature is by J. Sennep, the French cartoonist who drew for the Paris press, and it dates to 1939 or 1940, when the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact of August 1939 had recently set Berlin and Moscow together and the war had just begun in Europe. Cartoons like this one used everyday comedy to make sense of a frightening political turn, and that is much of what is worth noticing in it.
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
|---|---|
| Genre | 1939 |
| Notes | [1939 or 1940] |
| Subjects | Hitler, Adolf,--1889-1945. Stalin, Joseph,--1879-1953. World War, 1939-1945. Toothaches--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,274 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-117935 |
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