josef chladek

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Man Ray - Photographies. 1920-1934, Cahiers d'Art, James Thrall Soby, and Random House, 1934, Ray

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Softcover, spiral bound. With a Portrait by Picasso. Texts by Andre Breton, Paul Eluard, Rrose Selavy [Marcel Duchamp], Tristan Tzara - preface by Man Ray. Second edition (deuxième édition). The cover image is a colour photograph by Man Ray.

With portraits of André Breton, André Derain, Arnold Schönberg, Constantin Brâncuși, Georges Braque, Gertrude Stein, Henri Matisse, James Joyce, Le Corbusier, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, Paul Eluard, Picasso, Rrose Sélavy, Salvador Dalí, Sergei Eisentein, Tristan Tzara ...

"This was his first monograph, and his friends pulled out all the stops to herald it. It begins with a portrait drawing of Man Ray by Pablo Picasso and consists of 104 photographs divided into five sections. The first section, which is a mixture of general subjects (still lifes, rooms, landscapes, cityscapes, and flowers), is prefaced by a short text entitled ‘The Age of Light,’ Man Ray’s deeply eloquent apology for presenting such ‘autobiographical images’ at a time when ‘the problem of the perpetuation of a race or class and the destruction of its enemies is the all-absorbing motive of civilized society,’ and his defense of these words ‘whose only inspirations are individual human emotion and desire'" (Andrew Roth, 101 Books)

Pages: 14+104

Place: Paris, Hartford, and New York

Year: 1934

Publisher: Cahiers d'Art, James Thrall Soby, and Random House

Size: 25 × 31 cm (approx.)

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