D R E S S E D I N T H E S H A D O W S

‘Kiki posing nude among the ferns and grass, with the shadow of the fern against her arm like a bracelet above the elbow’

‘Entirely different in feeling is the image of Kiki posed in one of the frames for Retour a la raison, her bare torso striped with the refection from the curtain by the window’

‘what man ray created was more than style – it was a whole erotics of representation, in which the observer is involved in his associations, isolations and impositions, he not only iconises the subject, but refashions seeing itself.'

Benstock, S, Ferriss, S(ed.) 1994, On Fashion, Rutgers, USA.