Photography 1920s

1930

Portrait of Andre Breton by Man Ray

In 1921, Sioma Lifshitz, also known as Sam Sanzetti, a Russian of Jewish heritage, jumped on a British boat from Vladivostok, beginning an i...

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The peacock chair has taken its seat in history, supporting not only the backsides of the rich and famous but also playing a key part in the Black Panther

In the years between the wars, the pent-up demand for pleasure and creativity exploded. This was the Jazz Age, the age of Weimar cabaret culture, the Lost Generation in Paris, and of London’s Bright Young Things, a collection of Bohemian artists and socialites whom Evelyn Waugh showed in his satiric 1930 novel Vile Bodies “could match … Continue reading "Cecil Beaton’s Campy 1920s Photographs of London’s Bright Young Things"

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Born 1890 as Emmanuel Radnitzky in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, American visual artist Man Ray spent most of his career in Paris. He wa...

Mary Wigman's dancing hands by Charlotte Rudolph 1928 #hands #movements #body #art

Simone Kahn photographed by Man Ray in 1926. Kahn was the first wife of French surrealist author/activist André Breton.