

images that haunt us



Edward Steichen :: Florence O’Denishawn holding lily and wearing a gown and tiara, 1920s, for Vanity Fair./ src Getty Images

Ballet dancer Florence O’Denishawn poses in one of her costumes, 1920s. / src: Hulton-Deutsch / Getty Images

Maurice Golberg :: Unidentified dancer in Bombo, 1921-1922 / src: Museum of the city of New York
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On December 1924 Francis Picabia asked Bronia to participate in a production, Ciné Sketch, that he and René Clair were putting on after the 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. This photograph most probably belongs to that series.