Photo by Arnold Newman (1942).
I love this photo of Max Ernst by Arnold Newman, one of several pictures of the artist together with Dorothea Tanning in Max Ernst: A Retrospective, a catalogue for a 1975 Guggenheim Museum exhibition at the Internet Archive. The catalogue itself isn’t so revelatory (and most of the reproductions are monochrome) but it’s good to see a connection made between Arnold Böcklin’s Isle of the Dead and Ernst’s work. It’s an obvious parallel: all those porous landscapes and “fishbone forests” which offer a kind of mutated Symbolism. Browse the book here or download it here.
Photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson (1961).
Photo by Frederick Sommer (1946).
No photographer credited.
Photo by Frederick Sommer (1946).
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• Dorothea Tanning, 1910–2012
• Dreams That Money Can Buy
• La femme 100 têtes by Eric Duvivier
• A Picture to Dream Over: The Isle of the Dead
• Dorothea Tanning: Early Designs for the Stage