la femmes de man ray - juliet browner

1944

1944

1945

1945

1945

1946

1946

dorothea tanning, max ernst, man ray & juliet browner, hollywood california, photogrpahed by florence homolka, 1946

1946

ca. 1948

man ray & juliet, ca. 1950s

in 1940 man ray left ady behind in paris for new york & then hollywood where he would meet a young dancer, juliet browner. they lived together on vine street & were married in 1946 in a double ceremony with dorothea tanning & max ernst. 

tanning said in her book between lives: an artist & her world: 

man ray thought it was funny. with the intention to marry, we had come to hollywood, where he lived. getting married in hollywood! we all laughed about it, but the next morning he said, "maybe we'll go too. if max can do it so can i." and added, ruefully, "though i've never done anything so rectangular." on october 24, 1946, therefore, a double wedding in beverly hills united, in the eyes of the law, max and dorothea, and man ray and julie. there. it's said and done. painless, forgettable, but fun.

in 1951 juliet & man ray returned to paris where they would live until man ray's death in 1976 at the age of 86.  

in the early 1950s man ray wanted to produce a book as homage to juliet - 50 versions of juliet that he described as her fifty souls. he searched in vain for a publisher in paris but eventually gave up. when art dealer giorgio marconi came across the photographs & asked to publish them, man ray said he'd sell them if & when he could find someone to publish them in book form. finally in 1981, after his death, marconi was able to publish the book: the fifty faces of juliet. juliet kept man ray's promise to marconi & sold him the photographs.

juliet died in paris in 1991 at the age of 79 of a heart attack.