Small square octovo hardcover, glossy paper over boards, very tight binding, white fresh pages, covers unworn, prior signature covered, else FINE. Nothing but black and white photos, by the master. ; Aperture History Of Photography Series; 15; 8.1 X 8.0 X 0.5 inches.

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Title: Man Ray
Publisher: Aperture
Publication Date: 1979
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0893810487
ISBN 13: 9780893810481
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition :.
Condition: Fine

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"I do not photograph nature, I photograph my fantasy," Man Ray proclaimed, and he found in the camera's eye and in light's magical chemistry the mechanisms for dreaming. Schooled as a painter and designer in New York, Man Ray turned to photography after discovering the 291 Gallery and its charismatic founder, Alfred Stieglitz. As a young expatriate in Paris during the twenties and thirties, Man Ray embraced surrealism and Dadaism, creeds that emphasized chance effects, disjunction, and surprise. Tireless experimentation with technique led him to employ solarization, grain enlargement, mixed media, and cameraless prints (photograms)--which he called "Rayographs". These successful manipulations for which he was dubbed "the poet of the darkroom" by fellow surrealist Jean Cocteau, were a major contribution to twentieth-century photography. Man Ray presents forty-three of the greatest images from the artist's career. The essay by Jed Perl describes the influences on Man Ray's career and his enduring contribution to photography.

About the Author

Manfred Heiting is an internationally acknowledged expert on and collector of photographs and books, who divides his time between Amsterdam and Malibu. He is a founder-member of the J. Paul Getty Museum Council and a member of the supervisory board of the Herb Ritts Foundation, both located in Los Angeles. He is editor of Deutschland im Fotobuch (2011) and co-editor of Autopsie: Deutschsprachige Fotob�cher 1918-1945 (2012).

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