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The unknown from the School of Arts and Crafts - Photo Titzer. Die Bühne. Issue 413, 1935 [ÖNB]

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Atelier d'Ora · Benda ~ Dancer Rigmor Rasmussen (nude study), ca. 1927 | src the art stack & Leitz photographica auction 8

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Atelier Balázs ~ Rigmor Rasmussen in the revue ‘Der Zug nach dem Westen’ (The Train to the West), Berlin, 1926 | src getty images

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Cecil Beaton (1904-1980) ~ Lady Diana Cooper [Diana (née Manners), Viscountess Norwich], 1930 | src NPG · National Portrait Gallery

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Alexander Grinberg :: Dancer Maria Sandy, Vera Maya studio, From a series of scenic studies ‘Dances of nations of the world’, Moscow, late 1920s | getty images

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Inge Morath :: Linda, the llama, Time Square, NYC, 1957 [Life picture collection]

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Josef Sudek (1896 - 1976) ~ Still Life with Lily of the Valley (konvalinka), 1940s-50s | src mutualart & Stephen Ellcock

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Julien Oncete :: Dutch Angels, 2013 

Taken at the International Theater Festival, Sibiu, Romania (2013); likely from a production of Luigi Pirandello’s ‘Diana e la Tuda’ [written in 1926] / src 1x

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George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon ~ The Frieze. Photograms of the Year (1917-1918) | src internet archive

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Franz von Stuck :: Study of Tilla Durieux as Circe, ca. 1912. Oil on wood. | Tilla Durieux als Circe, um 1913 © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie - Leihgabe der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

(bottom) Photograph by Franz or Mary von Stuck showing Tilla Durieux in the role of Circe. The photo served as a template for the painting “Tilla Durieux as Circe”, around 1912. © Collection Museum Villa Stuck

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Tilla Durieux (1880-1971), born Ottilie Godefroy in Vienna, became famous as an actress from 1903 on the stage of Max Reinhardt in Berlin. […] Stuck presented her in the role of Circe from the play of the same name by Pedro Calderón, with which she had great success at the Munich Art Theater.

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Franz von Stuck :: Study of Tilla Durieux as Circe, ca. 1912. © Belvedere, Wien | src Sin and Secession

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Brassaï (1899-1984) ~ Anaïs Nin drapée dans un châle / Anaïs Nin draped on a shawl, 1932 | src RMN

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Henry B. Goodwin (1878 - 1931) ~ Carin B, 1920. Bromoil print. | src Moderna Museet

Henry B. Goodwin ~ Alfa Chiotrix (Carin B), 1920. Bromoil print. | src Moderna Museet ~ In Lady Barclays salon (update)

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Henry B. Goodwin :: Carin, 1920. Kolpigmentfotografi. | src Moderna Museet

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Carin Backoff

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Man Ray ~ Indestructible Object [Metronome with cutout photograph of Lee Miller’s eye on pendulum], 1923-1932 [editioned replica dated 1965] gif by Matthieu Bourel

Man Ray made this work in 1923, but transformed it a decade later, following a devastating breakup with Lee Miller. He replaced the original eye with a cut-out from a photograph of Miller’s eye. By then the artwork was titled Object to Be Destroyed. At an exhibition in 1957, a group of protesting students took Man Ray at his word by destroying it; Man Ray eventually reconstructed and renamed the work Indestructible Object. 

Though he attached only a fragmented image of Miller to the metronome, the accompanying instructions suggest that for Man Ray, the object was an emotionally evocative portrait. [text adapted from MoMA]

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Man Ray ~ Lee Miller’s Eye, 11 October 1932 - Man Ray’s inscription on the back of this photo: “With an eye always in reserve/ material indestructible…/ forever being put away/ Taken for a ride…/ put on the spot…/ The racket must go on/ I am always in reserve/ MR" | src Man Ray: Writings on Art

Man Ray’s celebrated combination of a metronome with a photograph of an eye affixed with a paperclip to the swinging arm was first created in 1922-23 and titled Object to be Destroyed (Objet à détruire). 

In 1933, responding to a series of exhibition requests, Man Ray remade the object. In 1932 he had been left by his lover Lee Miller, and it was her eye which appeared in this new version. Man Ray had published a drawing of the new version in a magazine called This Quarter.  The instructions attached to the drawing revealed the extent of his hurt. He wrote: ‘Legend, Cut out the eye from a photograph of one who has been loved but is seen no more. Attach the eye to the pendulum of a metronome and regulate the weight to suit the tempo desired. Keep doing to the limit of endurance. With a hammer well-aimed, try to destroy the whole at a single blow.’ (This Quarter, vol.I, September 1932, p.55.) quoted from Tate gallery

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Vintage Easter card with giant egg (1910s?)

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Happy Easter ppl