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Jennifer Shahade Recreates Famous Photo of Marcel Duchamp
Author : marcelduchamp_admin April 24, 2009
A still from Jennifer Shahade's video
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Jennifer Shahade, two-time winner of the World Chess Championship and contibuter to the book "Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Chess", recently recreated a famous 1963 photograph of Duchamp. The original photograph, which was taken by Julian Wasser at the Pasadena Art Museum, showed Duchamp playing chess against a naked woman. Shahade’s version is a video instead of a photo and shows her playing against a naked man. The game they play is based on a game Duchamp won against E. Smith. Shahade also interrupts the game to talk about her resarch on Duchamp and his chess playing.
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