Inside Elton John’s Modernist, Man Ray-Filled Photo Collection
Elton John has spent the last 25 years amassing one of the most impressive and comprehensive modernist photography collections out there, featuring everything from Dorothea Lange’s Dust Bowl-era snapshots to portraits of Picasso and Matisse taken by Man Ray. One hundred and fifty of those gems have now joined Sir Elton in the spotlight thanks to “The Radical Eye,” a new exhibition of his collection at the Tate Modern until May. Get a look inside, here.
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Man Ray, “Glass Tears,” 1932.
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André Kertész, “Underwater Swimmer, Esztergom, Hungary, 30 June,” 1917.
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Irving Penn, “Salvador Dali, New York,” 1947.
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Josef Breitenbach, “Patricia, New York,” c. 1942.
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Man Ray, “Rayograph,” 1923.
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Walker Evans, “Christ or Chaos?” 1946.
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Dorothea Lange, “Migrant Mother,” 1936.
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Edward Steichen, “A Bee on a Sunflower,” c. 1920.
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Maurice Tabard, “Solarised Man,” 1930.
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Tina Modotti, “Bandolier, Corn and Sickle,” 1927.
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Edward Weston, “Nude,” 1936.
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Herbert Bayer, “Humanly Impossible (Self-Portrait),” 1932.
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Edward Weston, “Igor Stravinsky,” 1935.
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Ilse Bing, “Dancer, Willem van Loon, Paris,” 1932.
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Man Ray, “Nusch Eluard,” 1928.
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Man Ray, “Nusch Eluard,” 1928.
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Margaret Bourke-White, “George Washington Bridge,” 1933.
