Tag: avant garde

Érotique Voilée, 1933

Man Ray :: Érotique Voilée (Veiled Eroticism), 1933, gelatin silver print. Inscribed ‘Meret Oppenheim dans l’atelier de Marcoussis, 15 rue Hégesippe-Moreau’ in ink (on the verso). | src Christie’s

Bronia Perlmutter by Man Ray

Man Ray :: Untitled. Brogna Perlmutter (Bronia Perlmutter), Paris, 1924 | src NGA [National Gallery of Australia]

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.

Langley’s First Wind Tunnel, ca. 1920
The honeycombed, screened
center of this open-circuit air intake for Langley’s first wind tunnel
insured a steady, non-turbulent flow of air. Two mechanics pose near the
entrance end of the actual tunnel, where air was pulled into the test
section through a honeycomb arrangement to smoothen the flow.
Courtesy NASA Langley Research Center
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furtho / source: monovisions