In 1963, days after the opening of marcel duchamp's retrospective at the pasadena art museum, eve babitz posed for. Dadaist painter and sculptor turned chess player marcel duchamp helped writer eve babitz get revenge on a lover through a now iconic photograph. If you knew absolutely nothing about art or literature, julian wasser ’s photograph of dadaist marcel duchamp and writer eve babitz playing chess would still be a knockout
The image’s deadpan humor comes from the subjects.
As her 1974 classic chronicle of midcentury los angeles life, eve’s hollywood, is reissued in all its bohemian glory, lili anolik takes a magnifying glass to the event that transformed a.
This woman, eve babitz, was only 20 years old and would later become an icon of californian culture The man was marcel duchamp, a renowned artist and chess professional The iconic and unusual photo of the chess game became one of the most famous of all time, with babitz’s daring nude as its central focus. It was made in 1963 by time photographer julian wasser in pasadena and shows dada artist and chessplayer marcel duchamp playing chess with a naked woman
The picture was supposed to celebrate marcel duchamp but in the end it made eve babitz an icon.
