Roger Schall (1904–1995) was a French photographer who, in the early 1930s, captured images for Diana Slip, a daring Parisian lingerie brand. His elegant photographs emphasize fabric and form, blending commercial documentation with an artistic touch. This showcases a unique era in Parisian fashion photography before World War II disrupted the scene. Continue reading Diana slip – Roger Schall

Pierre Molinier (1900–1976), the reclusive Bordeaux artist, transformed self-portraiture into a private ritual of fetishistic liberation. Through obsessive photomontages of stockings, heels, masks, and autoerotic acts, he externalized his all-consuming eroticism, blurring gender, pain, and pleasure. “I suffer from a very serious sickness named eroticism.” A true shaman of solitary transgression. Continue reading Pierre Molinier

Man Ray was actively photographing from 1918 until shortly before his death in 1976, spanning nearly 60 years. He began seriously in 1918 by documenting his own artwork in New York, innovated with rayographs in 1922 after moving to Paris, and produced his most iconic Surrealist and experimental works (including bondage-themed series) in the late 1920s and early 1930s. He continued commercial portraiture, fashion photography, and experiments through the 1940s–1970s in Hollywood and back in Paris, though his peak creative output was in the interwar period (1920s–1930s). Continue reading Man Ray