HOLLYWOOD'S EVE

Los Angeles in the 1960s and 70s was the pop culture capital of the worlda movie factory, a music factory, a dream factory. Eve Bab itz was the ultimate factory girl, a pure product of LA.The goddaughter of Igor Stravinsky and a graduate of Hollywood High, Babitz posed in 1963, at age twenty, playing chess with the French artist Marcel Duchamp. She was naked/ he was not. The photograph, cheese cake with a Dadaist twist, made her an instant icon of art and sex. Babitz spent the rest of the decade rocking and rolling on the S unset Stri...[Read more]