Man Ray / Jean-Hubert Martin - Objets de mon affection [Catalogue raisonné] - 1983

Rare. Original edition of this superb catalogue raisonne9 containing all the objects produced by Man Ray (1890-1976) during his life from 1911 to 1976.

Featuring 196 black-and-white photographs.
Introductions by Jean-Hubert Martin, texts by Rosalind Krauss and Man Ray.

Bound in pink cloth, with the title in black on the front, under the publisher's illustrated dust jacket.
In very good condition. Dust jacket somewhat worn. Binding and interior immaculate. A good copy.

The objects of my affection are those objects without which Man Ray could never do, and which he demanded to be present daily in his workshop, living constantly in relation to them, secreting them as an animal secretes its own shell, photographing them himself lovingly, copying them, painting them and transforming them. These are mythical objects such as Cadeau, the nail-studded iron, or Lampshade, the lampshade unfurled into a splendid spiral, whose mysterious seductive power never ceases to surprise us through infinite variants. Each object is described and commented on, most often by Man Ray himself, and photographed by him; the different replicas or editions, studied.

Emmanuel Radnitsky (or Rudzitsky), known as Man Ray, born August 27, 1890 in Philadelphia, United States, and died November 18, 1976 in Paris's 6th arrondissement, is an American painter, photographer, and filmmaker naturalized as French. A key figure in Dadaism in New York, then in Surrealism in Paris, Man Ray perfected Christian Schad's photogram technique and, together with photographer Lee Miller, rediscovered the so-called solarization process.

Man Ray / Jean-Hubert Martin
Objects of My Affection [Catalogue Raisonné]
Paris, Philippe Sers, 1983
in-4 (30.5 x 21cm), 192pp