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Man Ray, "Femme" (1931)

Where Amber´s eyes anything like the sun?

Listen, they overexposed him like a Lee

Miller / Man Ray solarisation.

He glowed the moment he was looked at. He

glitzed like one firefly in the dark, then like

a whole architecture of fireworks

spelling her name and the words I love. Mich

ael sputtered out his crescendo in jerks

and flares shed didn´t notice, being quite

so bright herself she eclipsed everything

that shone back at her with a lesser light.

Because she was light itself. Amber, walking

through the world, lit the world, took the world, made it,

and after her everything in it faded.

Ali Smith, The Accidental

(Ali Smith skriver om Lee Miller som skribent här)