Man Ray, 1921
Portrait Of Rose Sélavy
Marcel Duchamp was a man of many faces, and one of his faces was a woman: Rose Sélavy. Her name was a pun on the French phrase, Eros, c'est la vie, meaning ‘Love, such is life.’ Duchamp dressed as Rose for a series of portrait photographs by Man Ray, and even created readymade sculptures using the photos. read more
