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The Disney Castle was a major reference for Gatsby’s mansion in Baz Luhrmann’s 3D spectacular. In this still, the dazzle against the gloom is reminiscent of Whistler’s Nocturne paintings. Photograph: PR

Erwin Blumenfeld, whose work is on show at London’s Somerset House (to 1 Sep), was the highest-paid fashion snapper in 1950s New York. Yet the legendary experimenter, who hung out with Dadaists in Berlin, shunned the commercial photographer tag. In this stockings shoot for Vogue, the disembodied shapely legs and their ghostly nylon doubles become surrealist fetish objects. Photograph: /PR

The latest album sleeve from avant garde saxophonist and Bon Iver collaborator Colin Stetson looks back to modernism’s darkest days, to accompany a set entitled New History Warfare Vol 3. Photograph: PR

New coffee-table tome Enjoy The Experience: Home Made Records 1958–1992 charts the decades when you needed more than a Bandcamp account and a copy of Photoshop to release your own album. Still, the guileless handmade quality of Helen Hayes’s photo collage is a distant echo of today’s social network-savvy self-publicisers. Photograph: PR

If Alex Katz injected some sex into his flat, depthless paintings of beach scenes they might look something like the new album artwork from iconic pop composer and Beach Boys collaborator, Van Dyke Parks. Photograph: PR