Acc. № 184 · Archive reference image
Lost Cinema № 184
Un Riot Classique, Un Pimp Chicano
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A figure styled as a 1970s pimp—cream suit, wide-brimmed hat, burgundy silk shirt, gold chains—posed astride a vintage bicycle in a chiaroscuro studio setting. The French-language title suggests a lost European exploitation or blaxploitation-adjacent film, or a provocative street cinema piece from the post-May '68 underground. The bicycles-as-lowrider aesthetic and Chicano cultural reference indicate a film or poster cycle that existed outside mainstream distribution: radical, genre-bending, deliberately uncategorizable. Collects for enthusiasts of underground cinema, outsider cinema history, and the visual grammar of 1970s countercultural provocation.
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One artifact. One owner. On acquisition it is permanently retired from the archive. You receive the high-resolution file and a signed certificate of exclusivity.
About the certificate →Print specification
1024 × 1536 px · 1.6 MP · portrait
- Section
- Lost Cinema
- Style
- 70s studio portrait, chiaroscuro lighting, exploitation cinema aesthetic
- Mood
- defiant, archival, deliberately transgressive
- Palette
- cream, brown, burgundy, gold
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