Though Man Ray tried to play down what he considered his ‘professional’ work, his photographs in the 1920s and ’30s for magazines such as Harper’s Bazaar, and for the great couturiers of his day, transformed fashion photography. This show presents his images with many of the clothes they capture. Find out more from the Musée du Luxembourg’s website.
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Ball at the Château des Noailles (c. 1929), Man Ray. Photo: Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, dist. Rmn-Grand Palais/Guy Carrard; © Man Ray 2015 Trust/Adagp, Paris 2020
Peggy Guggenheim in a dress by Poiret (1924), Man Ray. Photo: Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, dist. Rmn-Grand Palais/Guy Carrard; © Man Ray 2015 Trust/Adagp, Paris 2020
Lee Miller, le visage peint (c. 1930), Man Ray. Private collection. Courtesy Fondazione Marconi; © Man Ray 2015 Trust/Adagp, Paris 2020
Evening dress in black satin and marabou feathers (1925), Charles Frederick Worth. Photo: Villa Rosemaine/Selma Berny
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