Tag: retrat

The White Iris, 1921

Edward Weston :: The White Iris [Tina Modotti, nude bust portrait leaning toward iris], 1921. Platinum or palladium print. | src Johan Hagemeyer Collection at CCP

Betty Katz by Edward Weston

Edward H. Weston (1886 – 1958) ~ Betty Katz (‘nude’), Los Angeles, 1920. Palladium print | src The J. Paul Getty Museum
Edward H. Weston (1886 – 1958) ~ Betty Katz [Betty Brandner], 1920 | src The J. Paul Getty Museum

In 1920 Edward Weston began a series of pictures of Betty Katz (later Brandner, 1865-1982), who was introduced to Weston by his colleague Margrethe Mather (1886-1952). Weston and Brandner engaged in a brief affair in October 1920, when he made this and several other images of her in her attic and out on a balcony. With its soft focus, these particular portraits are Pictorialist in style compared to the more experimental images Weston made of Katz (Brandner) that are Modernist in their self-conscious handling of space and form.

Text adapted from Brett Abbott. Edward Weston, In Focus: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2005), 20. (quoted from Getty Museum)

Adam et Eve; tableau vivant

Man Ray :: Ciné-Sketch; Adam and Eve (Marcel Duchamp and Bronia Perlmutter), 1924. Gelatin silver print, on carte postale, printed in the 1930s. | src Christie’s & Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philamuseum)

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.

Remedios Varo and the mask

Kati Horna (1912-2000) ~ Remedios Varo with a mask by Leonora Carrington, Mexico, 1957 | src NYBooks
Kati Horna ~ Portrait of Remedios Varo [wearing a mask by Leonora Carrington], 1957 | src Princeton University Art Museum
Kati Horna ~ Remedios Varo y la máscara, 1956. Varo, posing with a mask made by Leonora Carrington | src Morton Subastas
Kati Horna ~ Surreal portrait of Remedios Varo [wearing a mask by Leonora Carrington], 1957 | src Princeton University Art Museum