The Many Faces of... Marcel Duchamp. An exhibition of photographs by Marvin P. Lazarus

"In the late ’50s and early ’60s, attorney Marvin Lazarus (1918-1982) would periodically sneak out of his Manhattan office, cameras hidden under his clothes, to photograph some of the 20th century’s best-known artists (among them Franz Kline, Marcel Duchamp, Louise Nevelson and Alberto Giacometti). From 1959 to 1962, when he decided to leave the legal profession to try his hand at a full time career in photography, Lazarus also kept detailed notes recounting each of these sittings. His words and images offer sharp insights into the personalities and the social landscape of the postwar New York City art world. (Excerpt from Known by Sight : Marvin Lazarus, Photographer ; Photographs and Journal Excerpts by Marvin Lazarus). Marvin Lazarus (1918–1982) was a lawyer and Assistant Attorney General of New York State who left his legal practice in 1962 to become a full-time photographer. His portraits of more than 200 iconic American and European artists and sculptors — including Franz Kline, Marcel Duchamp, Louise Nevelson, Jasper Johns and Alberto Giacometti — are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. They were also published during the ’60s and ’70s in many prominent exhibition catalogues, artists’ monographs and art journals.” (https://www.marvinlazarus.com/biography).