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"De Sade à Lenine"[1] (1945) by Marcel Mariën

From Sade to Lenin.

Mariën’s early attempts at expressing his ideas in photography were unsuccessful. It was not until 1943 that he produced his first photograph with a distinctive personal vision, “De Sade à Lénine”, an image of a woman cutting a slice of bread, the loaf gripped tightly against her naked torso, the blade pointing at her left breast. Mariën commented, “the knife passes from de Sade to Lenin”.

It was pure Surrealism, marked with the two themes that would characterise his photography: the everyday object stripped of its traditional function and the female body as an instrument of creation.



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