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Despite this and other successful photographs, Mariën would soon abandon photography to concentrate on object-making, drawing and writing. Forever a restless spirit, in 1951 he signed on for two years as a sailor on a Danish cargo ship. In 1962, he lived in New York for a year before relocating to
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Mariën's early attempts at expressing his ideas in photography were unsuccessful. It was not until 1943 that he produced his first photograph with a distinctive personal vision, "De Sade à Lénine", an image of a woman cutting a slice of bread, the loaf gripped tightly against her naked torso, the
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The Life and Death of La Belle
Desiderata, The Printed Head Volume I, Number 11. Translated by Terry Hale, in collaboration with Michael Richardson, Sarah Whitfield & Marcel Mariën
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