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Jesper Høm - Romy Schneider Smoking, c1955.
Portrait of German dancer Marianne Vogelsan by Siegfried Enkelmann, c1954.
Jack Welpott - Child Bride, 1958.
Sabine Weiss - Untitled (Lyon), 1950.
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Ruth Hallensleben - Ohne Titel (Gitterrollen), 1956.
Pierre Molinier et Andre Breton, Dessin au crayon illustrant le poeme « Nous sommes le secret », dans Les Orpheons magiques, c1955.
… from Pierre Molinier Je suis ne homme-putain Ecrits et dessins inedits, par Jean-Luc Mercie, Edition Kamel Mennour, 2005.
In order to reach the limits of ecstasy in which we lose ourselves in bliss we must always set an immediate boundary to it: horror. Not only can pain, my own or that of other people, carry me nearer to the moment when horror will seize hold of me and bring me to a state of bordering on delirium, but there is no kind of repugnance whose affinity with desire I do not discern. Horror is sometimes confused with fascination, but if it cannot suppress and destroy the element of fascination it will reinforce it. Danger has a paralysing effect, but if it is a mild danger it can excite desire. We can only reach a state of ecstasy when we are conscious of death and annihilation, even if remotely.
Pierre Angelique [Georges Bataille], Madame Edwarda, 3rd ed., 1956.
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Édouard Boubat, France, 1957.
