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According to Man Ray, this print was the only one he retained before the negative was retouched.
This image first appeared as the preface for the April 1921 publication of New York Dada, a single-issue journal, published by Man Ray in collaboration with Marcel Duchamp. Here it is labeled dadaphoto and bears the credit Trademark Reg. to ...stake out his territory: the photomechanical reproduction of his photograph of an ephemeral object - a mix of nude and painted display manikin - simultaneously covered all media, while giving none precedence. Although later in Paris it would appropriately be titled Portmanteau [sic], for this occasion it was most definitely a dadaphoto, neither identifiable nor exact, linking the image, and Man Ray, with a kind of art that could be many things for many purposes. (Perpetual Motif, pp. 24-25).
This image first appeared as the preface for the April 1921 publication of New York Dada, a single-issue journal, published by Man Ray in collaboration with Marcel Duchamp. Here it is labeled dadaphoto and bears the credit Trademark Reg. to ...stake out his territory: the photomechanical reproduction of his photograph of an ephemeral object - a mix of nude and painted display manikin - simultaneously covered all media, while giving none precedence. Although later in Paris it would appropriately be titled Portmanteau [sic], for this occasion it was most definitely a dadaphoto, neither identifiable nor exact, linking the image, and Man Ray, with a kind of art that could be many things for many purposes. (Perpetual Motif, pp. 24-25).