#dora marr

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dora marr, via british journal of photography

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Saleswomen in the Butcher Shop, Barcelona, Photo by Dora Marr, 1933

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Dora Marr by Man Ray (1930’s)

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Dora Marr

By Antonia Hildebrand Women are suffering machines, Picasso said.And then he did everything he could to make it true.Poor Dora loved him.She was an artist herself,but he immortalized her as The Weeping Woman,without ever admitting, he was the onewho made her weep.Dark haired, beautiful, gifted and intense,she fell for him.Her photography was innovative and radical.So was her politics.She was a…

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Poem of the week: Weeping Woman by Grace Nichols

Carol Rumens: This time, a distinctly 'cubist' attempt to reclaim one of Picasso's muses as her own woman

Today's poem - a reflection on the complexity of Dora Marr - lover of, muse to, Picasso - subject of many of his paintings , and how one such painting became, in its turn, muse to Grace Nichols. .

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Dora Marr

Painted

Aesthetics…

A revolution

In art…

A beauty

Unfolded….

A poem

Being spoken

In pictures…

The gift

Of a lover

Made ….

An oasis of

Passion ….

A solitude

Of joy ….

A peace to

Reckon

With….

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Kenopsia, surrealism and the power of imagination during solitary confinement

Kenopsia, surrealism and the power of imagination during solitary confinement

Becky Scott has always loved collecting words. But when she found herself remote working in an abandoned ‘80s office building, during Lockdown, she discovered an especially fitting descriptor. One that spiralled into an analogue photography project, capturing ‘the mood of the time’. For a suitably spooky halloween piece, I spoke to Becky about kenopsia, surrealism and the power of imagination…

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Dora Marr