Man Ray - Man Ray Photograph (VERY FRESH COPY) - 1982

HIGHLY IMPRESSIVE BIG MONOGRAPH by Man Ray (1890-1976) -
showing all his famous photographs, of course also his famous nude photos.

MUCH MORE UNCOMMON HARDCOVER EDITION (published also in paperback).
WITH THE ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET.
EXCELLENT, VERY FRESH CONDITION.

After the big success of the first two auctions, 5Uhr30.com (Ecki Heuser, Cologne) now proudly presents the third and last edition for this year of “Masters of Erotic Photobooks".
Enjoy another highly personal selection of books dedicated to eroticism in all its beautiful facets - drawn from my private library and from various acquisitions over the past years.

American artist Man Ray spent the most productive years of his career, during the 1920s and 1930s, in Paris. While he considered himself a painter first and foremost, he also worked in a range of media including film, sculpture, and collage. However, it is for his achievements in the field of photography, from groundbreaking innovations to evocative, surrealist compositions and iconic portraits, that he is best known today. Man Ray arrived in Paris in 1921 full of creative energy. Inspired by Marcel Duchamp's readymades-mundane objects that became works of art in the context of the gallery- he spontaneously created an assemblage during a party by combining carpet tacks and an iron into a single work, which he later photographed and called Cadeau (Gift, 1921). Soon afterward, he began to experiment with cameraless photography and devised his Rayographs, abstract images produced by placing objects directly on photographic paper and exposing the composition to light. Man Ray swiftly became an influential figure in the city's avant-garde circles. Through his wide-reaching connections he made striking portraits of the many artists and luminaries working in Paris at the time, including Pablo Picasso, James Joyce, Jean Cocteau, Joan Miro, and Gertrude Stein. His work inspired other photographers and also encouraged painters, including the Surrealists Rene Magritte and Salvador Dali, to experiment with the medium. It could be argued that he did more than any other figure in the 20th century to elevate the photographic process from one of mere documentation to that of a fully-fledged art form in itself.

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Schirmer and Mosel, Munich. 1982. First German edition, first printing.

Hardcover with dustjacket. 215 x 310 mm. 256 pages. 347 photos. Introduction: Jean-Hubert Martin. Text in German.

Condition:
Book inside and outside fresh and flawless; clean with no previous owner marks and with no foxing. Dustjacket very fresh and complete with no tears, with no taped tears and with no missing parts; little trace of use, no remarkable flaws or defects. Overall very fine condition.

Great photobook by one of the greatest artists ever - in wonderful fresh condition.