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| Erina Alejo Prudencia Ayala on shift at Discount City, 2784-2786 Mission Street 2020 inkjet print San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
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| Sharon Core Delicatessen Counter 2003 C-print National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Andreas Gursky Chicago Mercantile Exchange 1997 C-print San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
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| John Harding San Francisco, California - 24th Street 1987 inkjet print San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
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| John Salt Ironmongers 1981 oil on canvas Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
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| Susan Meiselas Marketplace, Diriamba 1978 C-print Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Pirkle Jones Untitled 1966 gelatin silver print San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
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| Rollie McKenna New York Times ca. 1958 gelatin silver print Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Dan Weiner Shopping (for Fortune magazine) 1955 gelatin silver print San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
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| Mario De Biasi Snack Seller, Naples 1954 gelatin silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Anonymous American Painter Cheese Factory ca. 1930-40 oil on canvas Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin |
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| Ethel Carrick Flower Market, Nice ca. 1926 oil on canvas Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
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| Norman Rockwell Thoughtful Shopper 1924 oil on canvas Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin |
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| Harold Gilman Eating House ca. 1914 oil on canvas Museums Sheffield, South Yorkshire |
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| Anonymous French Photographer Charcuterie Bousquet, Raissac-d'Aude ca. 1905 gelatin silver print Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| Kees van Dongen Montmartre 1900 lithograph Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Pieter Aertsen Meat Stall with view of the Holy Family giving Alms 1551 oil on panel North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh |
"Happiness is a shy flowering whose frailty needs preserving. It is only a matter of determining the minimum meaning of the word and somehow taking the reality it evokes at base level. More often such definitions are accompanied by latent pessimism and a somewhat nervous smile: happiness is that fragile measure wrenched from universal nothingness and universal suffering."
– Robert Mauzi, L'idée du bonheur dans la littérature et la pensée françaises au XVIIIᵉ siècle (1964)