![]() ![]() For instance, the photomontage The Years Lie in Wait for You (1934), probably produced to advertise anti-ageing cream, printed two negatives as one – a spider’s web and the face of Maar’s friend the French surrealist Nusch Éluard.ĭora Maar. Her innovations during this time included collage, darkroom experiments and ingenious photographic staging. Her fashion commissions rocketed and she won commissions from Chanel as well as regular work from designers such as Elsa Schiaparelli, Jeanne Lanvin and Jacques Heim. ![]() It was not until around 1935, when their partnership ended, that Maar set up her own studio in central Paris. Their first known fashion commission was for Heim magazine in 1932. The pair specialised in portraits, nudes, fashion and advertising and, although their prints were signed Kéfer-Dora Maar, Maar was normally the sole author. In 1931, she established a studio near Paris with the director and designer Pierre Kéfer. She also worked with the fashion photographer Harry Ossip Meerson. In 1930, Maar shared a photographic darkroom with the French-Hungarian photographer Brassaï. Her inventive approach to photography produced a body of images that came to command a significant position in surrealism. Taking advantage of the interwar rise in advertising and the illustrated press, Maar’s photographic career began with commercial assignments in fashion and advertising, and she travelled to document the social conditions she found in many different countries. Originally trained in the applied arts and painting in Paris, Maar turned to photography in her early 20s. This fascinating exhibition of work by Dora Maar (1907-97) is extensive, digging in to every aspect of her long career, and full of surprises. Dora Maar This fascinating exhibition explores the long and varied career of the surrealist photographer and shows that her work went far beyond her links to Picassoĭora Maar at Tate Modern, 2019. ![]()
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