"Man Ray gives the female body, through his photographs, an unexpected dimension, a spectral eroticism, a surreal intensity. Primacy of matter over thought, represents the quintessence of Man Ray's work, in its vocation to sublimate the soul, to reveal the unrevealable, to materialize the dream. The subject lying down, naked, and enveloped in an irradiating light, invites the spectator to go beyond the mechanism of recording the visible and disrupts his "classical" perceptions." ftp
Kiki de Montparnasse, Primat de la matière sur la pensée, Man Ray, 1929
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(via Film Noir Photos: Smoking in Bed: Edwige Feuillère)
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ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE
“PATTI SMITH” // NYC, 1978
[gelatin silver print | 13 7/8 × 13 3/4”]
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