Man Ray

Man Ray. The actress Génica Athanasiou 1930

Man Ray. The actress Génica Athanasiou 1930

Man Ray

Man Ray. Suicide, Kiki de Montparnasse 1928

Madame Yevonde

Madame Yevonde. Lady Teynham 1960

Madame Yevonde

Madame Yevonde. Lady Teynham 1960

Madame Yevonde

Madame Yevonde. Lady Teynham 1960

Madame Yevonde. Lady Teynham 1960

Madame Yevonde

Madame Yevonde. Janet Mary Fox-Pitt and Lady Teynham 1960

Man Ray

Man Ray. Jacqueline Goddard 1930

Man Ray

Man Ray. Jacqueline Goddard 1934

Man Ray. Jacqueline Goddard 1934

Man Ray. Jacqueline Goddard 1934

Man Ray. Jacqueline Goddard 1934

Man Ray. Jacqueline Goddard 1934

Man Ray

Man Ray. Jacqueline Goddard, suicide 1931

Man Ray

Man Ray. Jacqueline Goddard 1932

Man Ray

Man Ray. Jacqueline Goddard 1934

Man Ray. Jacqueline Goddard 1934

Man Ray

Man Ray. Jacqueline Goddard 1932

Man Ray

Man Ray. Dead leaf 1943.
Remarkable for its simplicity, this photograph of a brittle castor oil plant leaf appeared with four others by Man Ray in the October 1943 issue of Minicam Photography. In its caption, Man Ray wrote with unusually poignant intensity that he knew that “the dying leaf would completely disappear tomorrow.” One is tempted to interpret the work’s melancholy as the artist’s growing dissatisfaction with his lack of recognition and financial success in Los Angeles, and his fear that the work he had left behind in France would be destroyed during the war.

Laszlo Moholy Nagy

Tribute to Laszlo Moholy Nagy.
László Moholy-Nagy is known for his participation in various avant-garde movements in the interwar period, in which he was associated with members of Dadaism, Constructivism, and De Stijl. He explored new photography techniques by designing photograms. At the request of the founder and director of the Bauhaus school, Walter Gropius, the artist became a teacher there in 1923, receiving the title of Master. He left the school in 1928 and moved to the United Kingdom in 1934. There, he continued his artistic experimentation and worked in advertising. In 1937, he moved to the United States to open the New Bauhaus school in Chicago.

Laszlo Moholy Nagy

Laszlo Moholy Nagy. Composition Z IV 1923

Laszlo Moholy Nagy. Composition Z IV 1923

Painted in 1923, Z IV demonstrates the artist’s characteristic innovative boldness, establishing a wonderful dialogue between the black diagonal bar and the abstract ray of light interspersed with vertical black lines and three colored dots. Moholy-Nagy was convinced that current art must be part of contemporary reality in order to convey meaning to its audience, which was in the grip of new technological advances. He therefore considered traditional figurative painting obsolete and turned to pure geometric abstraction, influenced by Russian constructivists such as Malevich and El Lissitsky. In this work, Moholy-Nagy explores a way of representing light on the painted canvas: the colored circles appear translucent when one plane is superimposed on the next, their hues changing accordingly. These intersecting, transparent forms read like converging beams of light.

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Laszlo Moholy Nagy. Cat 1926. Gelatin silver print

Laszlo Moholy Nagy. Cat 1926. Gelatin silver print

Laszlo Moholy Nagy. Cat 1926

Laszlo Moholy Nagy

Laszlo Moholy Nagy. June summer 1925

Man Ray

Man Ray. Jacqueline Goddard as a nun 1931. Solarization

Man Ray. Jacqueline Goddard as a nun 1931. Solarization

Man Ray. Jacqueline Goddard as a nun 1931. Solarization

Man Ray

Man Ray. Jacqueline Goddard as a nun 1931

Man Ray. Jacqueline Goddard as a nun 1931

Man Ray. Jacqueline Goddard as a nun 1931

Man Ray

Man Ray. Jacqueline Goddard 1932

Man Ray

Man Ray. The bracelets, Jacqueline Goddard 1931

Man Ray. The bracelets, Jacqueline Goddard 1931

Man Ray

Man Ray. Jacqueline Goddard 1935

Man Ray

Man Ray. Jacqueline Goddard 1935

Man Ray. Jacqueline Goddard 1935

Man Ray. Jacqueline Goddard 1935

Man Ray

Man Ray. Jacqueline Goddard 1931

Man Ray

Man Ray. Jacqueline Goddard 1930

Man Ray. Jacqueline Goddard 1930

Man Ray. Jacqueline Goddard 1930

Man Ray

Man Ray. Jacqueline Goddard 1930

Man Ray. Jacqueline Goddard 1930

Man Ray. Jacqueline Goddard 1930

Man Ray

Man Ray. The painter and writer Ithell Colquhoun 1932

Man Ray. The painter and writer Ithell Colquhoun 1932

Man Ray. The painter and writer Ithell Colquhoun 1932

Man Ray

Man Ray. The painter and writer Ithell Colquhoun 1932

Man Ray. The painter and writer Ithell Colquhoun 1932

Man Ray. The painter and writer Ithell Colquhoun 1932

Man Ray. The painter and writer Ithell Colquhoun 1932

Man Ray

Man Ray. Jacqueline Goddard 1935

Man Ray

Man Ray. Jacqueline Goddard 1932

Man Ray. Jacqueline Goddard 1932

Man Ray. Jacqueline Goddard 1932

Man Ray

Man Ray. Jacqueline Goddard 1930

Man Ray. Jacqueline Goddard 1930

Lux Feininger

Lux Feininger. Magdalena Droste 1926

Madame Yevonde

Madame Yevonde. Barbara Beaton 1925-1930

Dora Maar

Dora Maar. Meret Oppenheim 1934

Dora Maar. Meret Oppenheim 1934

Dora Maar. Meret Oppenheim 1934

Dora Maar

Dora Maar. Meret Oppenheim 1934

Dora Maar. Meret Oppenheim 1934

Dora Maar. Meret Oppenheim 1934

Dora Maar

Dora Maar. Meret Oppenheim 1934

Dora Maar. Meret Oppenheim 1934

Dora Maar. Meret Oppenheim 1934

Dora Maar. Meret Oppenheim 1934

Dora Maar

Dora Maar. Meret Oppenheim 1934

Dora Maar. Meret Oppenheim 1934

Dora Maar. Meret Oppenheim 1934

Madame Yevonde

Madame Yevonde. Mrs Michael Bacon as Minerva 1935

Man Ray

Man Ray. Jacqueline Goddard 1932

Man Ray. Jacqueline Goddard 1932

Madame Yevonde

Madame Yevonde. Eileen Hawthorn 1934

Madame Yevonde

Madame Yevonde. The actress Meum Stewart 1922

Madame Yevonde

Madame Yevonde. Close up of a woman 1933

Madame Yevonde

Madame Yevonde. The dancer Eve 1934

Madame Yevonde. The dancer Eve 1934

Madame Yevonde. The dancer Eve 1934

Madame Yevonde. The dancer Eve 1934

Madame Yevonde. The dancer Eve 1934

Madame Yevonde

Madame Yevonde. Diana Gould for Weingarten corsets 1933

Madame Yevonde. Diana Gould for Weingarten corsets 1933

Madame Yevonde. Diana Gould for Weingarten corsets 1933

Madame Yevonde. Diana Gould for Weingarten corsets 1933

Madame Yevonde

Madame Yevonde. Béatrice Eden as Clio the muse of history 1935

Madame Yevonde. Béatrice Eden as Clio the muse of history 1935

Erwin Blumenfeld

Erwin Blumenfeld. Double exposure 1932

Erwin Blumenfeld

Erwin Blumenfeld. Madonna of a war (Nun), Amsterdam 1923. Collage

Erwin Blumenfeld

Erwin Blumenfeld. The women who serve 1943 Harper’s Bazaar cover

Dora Maar

Dora Maar. Meret Oppenheim 1934

Dora Maar. Meret Oppenheim 1934

Dora Maar. Meret Oppenheim 1934

Man Ray

Man Ray. Jacqueline Goddard 1931

Madame D’Ora

Madame D’Ora. The dancer Trudl Dubsky 1930

Roger Schall

Roger Schall. Advertisement for Diana Slip 1932

Roger Schall

Roger Schall. Advertisement for Diana Slip 1932

Roger Schall

Roger Schall. Advertisement for Diana Slip 1938

Roger Schall

Roger Schall. Advertisement for Diana Slip 1938

Roger Schall

Roger Schall. Advertisement for Diana Slip 1933

Roger Schall

Roger Schall. Advertisement for Diana Slip 1933

Roger Schall

Roger Schall. Advertisement for Diana Slip 1930

Roger Schall

Roger Schall. Advertisement for Diana Slip 1930

Jacques-Henri Lartigue

Jacques-Henri Lartigue. Renée Perle wearing a silk pajama 1931

Jacques-Henri Lartigue

Jacques-Henri Lartigue. Arlette Boucard, Cannes 1927. Autochrome

Jacques-Henri Lartigue

Jacques-Henri Lartigue. Renée Perle 1931

Jacques-Henri Lartigue

Jacques-Henri Lartigue. Renée Perle by the window 1930

Hanns Holdt

Hanns Holdt. The dancer Clotilde von Derp 1913

Hanns Holdt. The dancer Clotilde von Derp 1913

George Hurrell

George Hurrell. The actress Myrna Loy in the Mask of Fu Manchu 1932

Grete Popper

Grete Popper. Advertising study 1930

Grete Popper

Grete Popper. Nude study 1933

Max Dupain

Max Dupain. The dancer Pamela Bromley-Smith 1947

Hanns Holdt

Hanns Holdt. The dancers Clotilde von Derp and Alexander Sacharoff 1913

Hanns Holdt

Hanns Holdt. The dancer and writer Emmy Hennings 1922

Hanns Holdt

Hanns Holdt. The dancer and writer Emmy Hennings 1920-1922

Hanns Holdt

Hanns Holdt. The dancer and writer Emmy Hennings 1921-1922

Lucien Lorelle

Lucien Lorelle. Floral arrangement 1935

Lucien Lorelle

Lucien Lorelle. Nude surrounded by drawings 1935

Lucien Lorelle

Lucien Lorelle. Blood circulation of statues 1947

Lucien Lorelle

Lucien Lorelle. Venus Anadyomene 1947

Lucien Lorelle

Lucien Lorelle. Venus Anadyomene 1947

Lucien Lorelle

Lucien Lorelle. Cut-out female nude 1940

Emil Otto Hoppé

Emil Otto Hoppé. The dancer Martha Graham 1920

Francis Goodman

Francis Goodman. The writer Barbara Bentley holding a mask 1932

Léopold Reutlinger

Atelier Reutlinger. The actress and writer Colette 1909

Léopold Reutlinger

Léopold Reutlinger. The actress and writer Colette posing as a sphinx 1910

Léopold Reutlinger

Atelier Reutlinger. The actress and writer Colette lying on a lion skin 1907

Léopold Reutlinger

Atelier Reutlinger. The actress and writer Colette lying on a lion skin 1907

Léopold Reutlinger

Atelier Reutlinger. The actress and writer Colette in The dream of Egypt 1907

Léopold Reutlinger

Atelier Reutlinger. The actress and writer Colette  1907

Léopold Reutlinger

Atelier Reutlinger. The actress and writer Colette in The dream of Egypt 1907

Léopold Reutlinger

Atelier Reutlinger. The actress and writer Colette in The dream of Egypt 1907

Atelier Reutlinger

Atelier Reutlinger. The actress and writer Colette in The dream of Egypt 1907

Léopold Reutlinger

Léopold Reutlinger. The actress and writer Colette 1907-1910

Léopold Reutlinger. The actress and writer Colette 1907-1910

Léopold Reutlinger. The actress and writer Colette 1907-1910

Edward Steichen

Edward Steichen. The actress and writer Colette 1935 for Vanity Fair

Ernest James Bellocq

Ernest James Bellocq. Prostitutes playing cards, New-Orleans 1912

Franc Goodman

Francis Goodman. Unknown model 1936-1937

Val Telberg

Val Telberg. Kathleen Haven 1945

Lotte Jacobi

Lotte Jacobi. The dancer Pauline Koner 1940

George Rinhart

George Rinhart. The actress Anna Fougez 1920s

George Rinhart

George Rinhart. The actress Anna Fougez 1920s

William Mortensen

William Mortensen. The actress Betty Compton 1922

George Rinhart

George Rinhart. The actress Marlene Dietrich as Catherine II of Russia in the Scarlet Empress directed by Joseph von Sternberg in 1934

Brassaï

Brassaï. Woman smoking opium, Paris 1931