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De l'Ecotais reveals the difference between the working methods of the two pioneers of the absurd: "Marcel Duchamp looked for his ready-mades in department stores, randomly, at a given moment. He then gave them titles and signed them. Man Ray, on the other hand, usually constructed images from everyday objects, which were then deliberately transformed by photography. It is the fact of being reproduced and relabelled which gives life to the objects."
So I guess Man Ray, who died in 1976, would have been delighted at the two dates on the Canberra label. But would he insist on the new versions being destroyed so that a third date might be added in future? As Umberto Eco famously wrote: "When originals no longer exist, the last copy is the original."
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"Gentlemen, I will now show you this text. Forgive me for using a photocopy. It's not distrust. I don't want to subject the original to further wear." "But Ingolf's copy wasn't the original," I said. "The parchment was the original." "Casaubon, when originals no longer exist, the last copy is the original."
-- Foucault's Pendulum, Chapter 18