Lee MILLER (Lady Lee PENROSE) & MAN RAY

CONSTRAINT 1 : subject to be bounded by black lines.

INVENTION 2 : “artistic” use of the Sabatier effect (1929).

CONSTRAINT 2 : part reversal of tones.

INVENTION 2 : “artistic” use of solarisation, or “afterimageography” (1929). Confounds an image with its afterimage (the negative and positive being both isomprphic and complementary).

CONSTRAINT 3 : non-coincidence of subject and signifier (title).

INVENTION 3 : free word-picture association.

WORKS : widely distributed and reproduced. 1 and 2 : portraits and female nudes. 3 : “La Femme” (1920), which is of an egg-beater (also titled “L’Homme”).