"[These are] two artists who are operating in isolation on opposite sides of the world — and they didn't know each other, they never met — but are working in the same sorts of ways, applying Surrealist imagery to their commercial photography, publishing in the same international journals and exhibiting in the same international salons for photography." "After he reviewed Man Ray's book, he began using some of the techniques that he'd seen in the international journals and that had been very heavily adopted by Man Ray and started applying them to his artistic photography and even his commercial work." "She used the studio, particularly in the 1930s and early 40s, for creating these very interesting, very sophisticated modernist images that have a life of their own and aren't necessarily in a direct relationship to Max's work — they've got a different sensibility about them."
Author: Nicola Heath
Published at: 2025-09-22 20:59:33
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