
Ann Mansolino :: from Thresholds II series / src: www.annmansolino.com
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Ann Mansolino :: from Thresholds II series / src: www.annmansolino.com
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Ruth Thorne-Thomsen :: Untitled, 1976. Silver gelatin contact print from pinhole negative.

Antoni Esplugas Puig :: Bastida que es va fer servir per la construcció del monument a Colom / Scaffolding that was used for the construction of the monument to Columbus, Barcelona, ca. 1885 / src:
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In 1924 Francis Picabia asked Bronia to participate in a production, Ciné Sketch, that he and René Clair were putting on after the Relache ballet on New Year’s Eve. Bronia agreed, and she and Marcel Duchamp appeared nude —Duchamp did have a strategically placed fig leaf— in a living tabloid of Lucas Cranach’s Adam and Eve, which Man Ray photographed.
Ciné Sketch (1924) was a theatrical diversion conceived by Francis Picabia and René Clair, in which Marcel Duchamp and the Jewish-Polish model Bronia Perlmutter mime the figures of Adam and Eve in a tableau vivant of the Temptation after a painting by Cranach. Ciné-Sketch was performed only once, at the conclusion of Relache (by Ballets Suédois) at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées on New Year’s Eve 1924.

Woman, 1939. Chlorobromide print by G N Lude. (Photo by The Royal Photographic Society Collection / Getty Images) / source: billyjane




Mary Binney Montgomery in Oramunde, experimental film directed by Emlen Etting in 1933 / full short film on YouTube / source:
A study on the theme of ‘Pelléas et Méllissande’. A female figure, her face hidden by a long veil, dances, twirls, and runs on the shore. She leaps on rocks along the edge of the sea, her veil wafting behind her.

Bijin with a Kitten, 1907 / source and high resolution: Blue Ruin