The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 24, 2024

Double Exposure, Woman on Bed

Double Exposure, Woman on Bed

1933
(French, 1905–1977)
Image: 16.6 x 23 cm (6 9/16 x 9 1/16 in.); Paper: 18 x 23.2 cm (7 1/16 x 9 1/8 in.)
© Ministère de la Culture / Médiathèque du Patrimoine, Dist. RMN
Location: not on view

Description

Hired as the set photographer for Jean Vigo’s celebrated film L’Atalante, Parry combined shots from two scenes to produce his own artwork addressing two of the movie’s themes: desire and regret. The heroine, a newlywed who through misunderstandings and misadventures has been separated from her husband, lies alone in her bed longing for him. Superimposed is her memory of an adventure they shared. This single image suggests dualities of past and present, reality and memory, union and loss.
  • The artist's estate, Paris
    Christian Bouqueret [1950-2013], Paris
    (Gitterman Gallery, New York, NY)
    David Raymond [b. 1979], New York, NY
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E. Hinson, Ian Walker, and Lisa Kurzner. Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography : the David Raymond Collection in the Cleveland Museum of Art. 2014. Mentioned: p. 62; reproduced: p. 67; reproduced and mentioned: p. 231.
    Schneede, Uwe M. Begierde im Blick: surrealistische Photographie. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2005. Reproduced: p. 105; mentioned p. 217.
  • Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 19, 2014-January 11, 2015).
    Begierde im Blick: Surrealistische Fotografie. Hamburger Kunsthalle (May 11-29, 2009).
  • {{cite web|title=Double Exposure, Woman on Bed |url=false|author=Roger Parry|year=1933|access-date=24 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2007.108