#FromTheArchives The otherworldly images of photographer Melvin Sokoslky brought a magical-realist flair to Harper’s Bazaar. But perhaps one that hits closest to home is his René Magritte-inspired surrealist photo from November 1963—‘Big Chair Lean’—that features his mother’s old kitchen chair rendered enormous in scale. The simple chair Sokolsky grew up sitting on was scaled up 10 feet on set, where “everyone in the studio was climbing up on it and posing,” Sokoslky recalled. “It created a space that demanded interaction with the observer.” The colored version of the image became one of the photographer’s best-known. “The art department thought the image was so weird,” he said. “But times and tastes have changed.”