Day 3: Christina Cacouris

Man Ray, “Indestructible Object (or Object to Be Destroyed)”, originally 1923. Instructions are found on the back: “Cut out the eye from the photograph of one who has been loved but is seen no more. Attach the eye to the pendulum of a metronome and regulate the weight to suit the tempo desired. Keep going to the limit of endurance. With a hammer well-aimed, try to destroy the whole at a single blow.”

Man Ray, “Noire et Blanche” negative, 1926.

Man Ray, “Trans Atlantique”, 1921.

Letter from Man Ray to Tzara Doucet, dated June 18, 1921.

Man Ray, “A l’heure de l’observatoire, les amoureux”, 1934. Photograph, 1936.

Man Ray, “Lee Miller”, 1930.

Man Ray, Solarisation.

Man Ray, “Lee Miller and a Friend”, 1930.

Man Ray, “Le Violon d’Ingres”, 1924 / Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, “La Baigneuse Valpinçon”, 1808.

Man Ray, “Lee Miller”, 1929.

Man Ray’s Anatomy series / Man Ray, “Le Logis de l’Artist” 1931.

Lee Miller and William Seabrook, photographed by Man Ray, c. 1929.

Lee Miller on the cover of Vogue, 1927.

Lee Miller as a crumbling statue in Jean Cocteau’s “Sang d’un Poete”, 1930.

Lee Miller, “Fire Masks”, 1941.

Lee Miller, “Model in Bombed-Out London” for Vogue, 1941.

Lee Miller, “Revenge on Culture”, 1940.

Lee Miller in Hitler’s bathtub at his headquarters in Munich, 1945.

Lee Miller, “Nazi Suicide” 1945.

Lee Miller, “Dead SS Guard, Floating in Canal”, Dachau, 1945

Lee Miller with her Rolleiflex camera in Egypt, 1935.