Photographer julian wasser and babitz's sister, mirandi babitz, recollect the events surrounding the legendary photo. The iconic and unusual photo of the chess game became one of the most famous of all time, with babitz’s daring nude as its central focus. As her 1974 classic chronicle of midcentury los angeles life, eve’s hollywood, is reissued in all its bohemian glory, lili anolik takes a magnifying glass to the event that transformed a.
Eve Babitz Bares It All | Vanity Fair
It was made in 1963 by time photographer julian wasser in pasadena and shows dada artist and chessplayer marcel duchamp playing chess with a naked woman
The picture was supposed to celebrate marcel duchamp but in the end it made eve babitz an icon.
If you knew absolutely nothing about art or literature, julian wasser ’s photograph of dadaist marcel duchamp and writer eve babitz playing chess would still be a knockout The image’s deadpan humor comes from the subjects. California’s surreal 1960s truly began one los angeles morning in '63, when pioneering dadaist marcel duchamp met stark naked eve babitz Duchamp had by then semiretired from art to play chess
Babitz was just beginning her career as a cultural provocateur Here she recalls the story behind their encounter, which changed her life and her city forever. This woman, eve babitz, was only 20 years old and would later become an icon of californian culture The man was marcel duchamp, a renowned artist and chess professional
