images that haunt us
Man Ray :: Meret Oppenheim’s arm in Marcoussis’s studio, 1933. From a suite of photographs entitled Érotique-voilée (Veiled Eroticism), Man Ray’s photograph shows his then assistant, fellow-Surrealist Meret Oppenheim, in the print studio of Louis Marcoussis. Oppenheim’s left forearm is stretched out and smeared with the black ink of an etching press, behind a large copper printing-press wheel.
/ source: National Gallery of Australia
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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.
“An atypical work for the naturalistically inclined Cuvelier, this highly Romantic image of two people sitting below the skeletons of burned pine trees and looking into the featureless distance like the contemplative figures in the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich, was no doubt a response to the startling sight of the charred landscape.” [quoted from The Met]
“Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy”
― Emil Cioran; A Short History of Decay (1949)
Charles Fraser :: Man Ray with ‘photokina-Auge’, at photokina trade fair, 1960
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Luthy Lovett :: In the Style of Man Ray / src: DeviantArt
Man Ray :: Les Jambes d’Yvonne George (Yvonne George’s legs up leaning on a radiator), 1925 / src: The Art of Man Ray
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