http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7m8VA7jTFw&feature=youtu.be This Slide presentation is reproduced as the video above. It provides a short description of the book "Man Ray Photographs 1920-1934 Paris" which I have for sale at a website. http://manrayphotographs.con, identified in the video description.

1. Man Ray Photographs 1920-34
Paris
The Book

2. Man Ray Photographs
• His first monograph
• High quality reproduction of his photos
• Only around 3,000 volumes printed
• Poor sales – lead to switch of title page
– To say “Second Edition” to give impression the
first edition had sold out

3. Man Ray Photographs
• Born in Philadelphia, in the United States in
the year 1890
• Born as Emmanuel Radnitzky, changed his
name in 1912, at least partially to avoid ethnic
and anti-Semitic discrimination
• Attended “The New York City Modern School
in autumn of 1912
• Left the US in 1920 and settled in
Montparnasse quarter

4. Man Ray Photographs
In his early years in Paris he met and became friends with many
artist notables who sat for portraits in his studio.
Salvador Dali Pablo Picasso

5. Man Ray Photographs
• He experimented wildly
with photography
• He developed
Rayographs, images left
on photo paper by
objects placed on it
before it is exposed to
light

6. Man Ray Photographs
Ray perfected the
“solarization”
technique, in which
areas of a photograph
are reversed in tone.
Accidentally discovered
by his assistant and
lover Lee Miller.

7. Man Ray Photographs 1920-1934 Paris
This Man Ray book has been called one of the
most important photography books of the
twentieth century.
Many Ray himself has been called one of the 25
most important artists of that century
Learn more at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_Ray