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“Look at Magda Förstner: her eyes vibrate, her mouth tenses, her nostrils quiver, her body knots, folds, opens up…,” marveled a critic for the Parisian daily Le Soir in 1927. He was reviewing the Hungarian dancer’s performance at the Sorbonne. To him, she represented “the whole fantasy, the whole new rhythm, the whole music hall … Read more

Self-Portrait, Paris is conjured from practically nothing: parts of a door and a wall, the shadow of the photographer gripping the tripod attached to his camera. A shadow within a shadow, actually, because of the two light sources, one yielding an ordinary profile, the other, an oafish umbra. Tucked into the picture’s upper-left corner is … Read more