We reveal the story behind Man Ray’s iconic Noir et Blanche, one of the most important examples of Surrealist photography
When young American painter and photographer Emmanuel Radnitzky, better known as, followed his friend Marcel Duchamp from New York to Paris in 1921, he finally found himself among likeminded souls. The experimental pair, who met in Ridgefield, New Jersey in 1915, had been busy trying to pioneer Dadaism in the Big Apple, co-editing the magazine, which turned out to be an epic failure.
As a result, many of his most revered works were in fact taken for fashion magazines, including his seminal 1926 image, and its reverse negative print, depicting Man Ray’s muse Kiki de Montparnasse, her pale face resting on a table and her hand holding up a wooden African mask whose beatific expression she is mimicking. The duo had met in 1921, when Man Ray, allured by the actress and singer’s “cute accent and air of mystery”, had asked her to pose for him.
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