Nusch Eluard in silhouette, 1935, printed circa 1960s

From the series of nude photographs of Nusch Eluard, taken in 1935 for the book of Paul Eluard's poems, Facile. Sandra Phillips writes of these photographs "Man Ray had previously used photographs of Nusch in his fashion work, to which the book is directly related. Lithe and elegant, Nusch's nude body decorates the pages in innovative layouts: it is solarized, made negative, and double-exposed, and it floats on each page like a drawing in an undetermined space."