“oh! isto é tão contemporâneo”

MAN RAY (Duchamp’s Large Glass with Dust Notes)
DUST BREEDING (1920)

One of Duchamp’s close friends and a member of the New York
Dada scene, the American photographer and painter
Man Ray (1890–1976) was also one of Duchamp’s collaborators.
His photograph Dust Breeding (Duchamp’s Large Glass
with Dust Notes) from 1920 is a document of The Large Glass
after it had collected a year’s worth of dust while Duchamp
was in New York. The photograph was taken with a two-hour-long
exposure that beautifully captures the complex texture
and diversity of materials that lay atop the glass surface.
Dust Breeding marks a pivotal phase in the development
of Duchamp’s masterpiece. After the photograph was taken,
Duchamp wiped The Large Glass almost entirely clean,
leaving a section of the cones covered with dust, which
he permanently affixed to the glass plate with
a diluted cement. (@ www.metmuseum.org)