

images that haunt us





Harlip was a photographic studio specializing in celebrity portraits and based in London. Until 1937, the Harlip studio had its headquarters on the Kurfürstendamm in Berlin. Afterwards, the Harlips left Berlin due to the growing crackdown on Jewish businesses and moved to London. After Dr. Harlip’s death in 1945, Mrs. Harlip continued the business there as one of the great socialite photographers of the 1950s. | src La Gazette Drouot













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.