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[Ray, Man. (1890 - 1976) STYLE OF]. "Mannequin Erotica" – Anonymous Kodak Photograph after "Mr. And Mrs. Woodman".
Playful vintage black and white Kodak photograph of promiscuously tangled "nude" wooden mannequins, 1961, evidently an hommage to the mannequin works of Man Ray. Timestamped "Sep. '61" on the right margin. In very fine condition. 3.5 x 3.5 inches (8.9 x 8.9 cm.).
A playful ode to the Free Love Movement of the 1960s, this photograph is almost certainly intentionally reminiscent of Man Ray's series Mr. And Mrs. Woodman (1947), consisting of 27 photographs of wooden artist's mannequins arranged in various sexual positions. Man Ray frequently incorporated artist’s mannequins into paintings, photographs and his own objects. While wooden mannequin figures were widely used by artists for centuries to draw life studies, Man Ray, in true surrealist fashion, turned this tradition upside down and used the figures to create interactive and provocative scenes – his version of a ‘life study’.
[Ray, Man. (1890 - 1976) STYLE OF]. "Mannequin Erotica" – Anonymous Kodak Photograph after "Mr. And Mrs. Woodman".
Playful vintage black and white Kodak photograph of promiscuously tangled "nude" wooden mannequins, 1961, evidently an hommage to the mannequin works of Man Ray. Timestamped "Sep. '61" on the right margin. In very fine condition. 3.5 x 3.5 inches (8.9 x 8.9 cm.).
A playful ode to the Free Love Movement of the 1960s, this photograph is almost certainly intentionally reminiscent of Man Ray's series Mr. And Mrs. Woodman (1947), consisting of 27 photographs of wooden artist's mannequins arranged in various sexual positions. Man Ray frequently incorporated artist’s mannequins into paintings, photographs and his own objects. While wooden mannequin figures were widely used by artists for centuries to draw life studies, Man Ray, in true surrealist fashion, turned this tradition upside down and used the figures to create interactive and provocative scenes – his version of a ‘life study’.