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Dalí’s lecture in a diving suit

portrait of Salvador Dalí on 16 June 1936; useful subject context, but it does not show the diving-suit lecture. Original asset page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_Salvador_Dali,_Paris,_LOC_4483943847_(cropped).jpg. Photographer: Carl Van Vechten. The file page identifies the Library of Congress Carl Van Vechten Photographs collection and marks it public domain. No edits.

portrait of Salvador Dalí on 16 June 1936; useful subject context, but it does not show the diving-suit lecture. Original asset page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_Salvador_Dali,_Paris,_LOC_4483943847_(cropped).jpg. Photographer: Carl Van Vechten. The file page identifies the Library of Congress Carl Van Vechten Photographs collection and marks it public domain. No edits.

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At a 1936 lecture in London, Salvador Dalí appeared in a deep-sea diving suit. He meant it to represent a descent into the unconscious, but the helmet kept the audience from hearing him and he nearly suffocated; colleagues opened it with a spanner.