Oracle qu'on interroge

The head of a woman is her complete physical portrait, but, whatever it’s fascination, "Le portrait d'un être qu'on aime doit pouvoir être non seulement une image à laquelle on sourit mais encore un oracle qu'on interroge." (“The portrait of a loved one should be not only an image at which one smiles, but an oracle one interrogates.”) says Andre Breton.

So for all purposes let us first ask of a woman: has she a head?
Man Ray, “L'inventaire d'une tête de femme,” in Exposition InteRnatiOnale du Surréalisme, exh. cat. (Paris: Galerie Daniel Cordier, 1959),

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This research formed part of a series of photographic compositions and writing in Murieston Lane, Edinburgh, Scotland.

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