1913

actress julia james photographed by alexander bassano.

nude descending a staircase no. 2 by marcel duchamp

female mongolian prisoner, imprisoned for adultry (portable imprisonment) photographed by stephane passet.

district of columbia traffic. a very new-looking ca. 1913 haynes roadster in washington crossing pennsylvania avenue at 14th street n.w.

cover of the official program for the march 1913 woman suffrage march in washington d.c.

guitar, gas, jet and bottle by pablo picasso. 

telegraph messenger boy, waco, texas. photograph by lewis hine.

sunday strollers on new york's fifth avenue.

gordon van tine catalog.

mae murray on chair. photographed by moffett.

japanesque autochrome. photograph by alfonse van besten.

victoria copying machine.

liebespaar by egon schiele.

dancer clotilde von derp. photograph by rudolf dührkoop & minya diez-dührkoop.

thomas edison with an electric car.

die jungrau (the virgin) by gustav klimt.

paul poiret fashions.

anna pavlova photographed by madame d'ora.

dadaists tristan tzara, georges janco, marcel janco, jules janco (three brothers), poldi chapier, and ion vinea, bucharest.

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man ray - i want your sex

automne, 1929

anatomies, 1929

nusch & paul éluard 

monument to sade, 1933

the fantasies of mr. seabrook, ca. 1930

meret oppenheim, ca. 1930

lips (the kiss variation), 1930

leg in one stocking with garter

été, 1929

picasso with yvonne zervos & another woman, ca. 1930s

meret oppenheim, 1933

prayer la priére, 1930

nusch & ady, 1937

la prostitution (man ray & kiki de montparnasse), 1925

self-portrait with meret oppenheim, 1933

lee miller & friend, ca. 1930s

dora maar's legs, 1936

all photographs by man ray.

the story-tellers, part 28

paul mccartney

bob dylan, desire, 1976

marilyn monroe, nevada, photographed by eve arnold, 1960

patti smith

clint eastwood

audrey hepburn

marcello mastroianni in 8 1/2, 1963

pablo picasso

steve mcqueen, ca. 1960s

la femmes de man ray - ady (adrienne fidelin)

ca. 1937

la mode au congo, harper's bazaar, 1937

man ray & adrienne fidelin

1937

ca. 1937

ca. mid to late 1930s

ady, marie & paul cuttoli, pablo picasso, dora maar & man ray summering in antibes.

in 1936 adrienne fidelin, a young dancer from guadeloupe met man ray in paris. she was in her mid 20s & he was 46. she became his lover, muse & model - not much more than that is known about their meeting, the details of her life or what happened to her after her affair with man ray ended.

she was welcomed by man ray's group of friends & socialized & vacationed with the likes of pablo picasso, dora maar, paul éluard & his wife nusch, max ernst & lee miller & husband roland penrose.

in 1937 man ray photographed ady for harper's bazaar. (william randolph hearst, bazaar's publisher, prohibited photographs of blacks in the magazine - not uncommon for the time.) the photos were inspired by an exhibtion of headdresses from the belgian congo that man ray had seen at the galerie charles ratton in paris earlier that spring. four pictures were selected for the 2 page spread, headlined "the bushongo of africa sends his hats to paris. 3 images of white women, along with text by paul éluard were on the left. on the right the entire page was of fidelin. 

fidelin & man ray parted in 1940 when he fled france for the states during the nazi occupation while she chose to remain in paris to care for her family.  she later married, & the last thing on record is that she was dancing at a "negro" club on the champs-élysée.