Man Ray

Very rare Man Ray item published by the Hanover Gallery and printed by Sergio Tosi in Milan in 1969. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Distinctive cover to exhibition catalogue containing 23 works, most shown on a separate leaf. One work spread on two pages. Five others are shown on rectos. Front cover with abstract form of mask printed upon a mirror. Inside and outside of covers are mirrored, bound with contents by metal rings. Some artwork rendered in color. Measuring 20 by 16.5 cm. Unpaginated, 19 leaves, each of a light beige card stock, with a yellow border. Text is three pages, not including list of works within, which runs two pages. Mirror boards with some scratches. Otherwise, fine. Metal boards (mirrors). Three metal rings. ^{Man Ray was responsible for several technical innovations in modern art, filmmaking, and photography. These included his use of photograms to produce surrealist images he called "Rayograms", and solarization (rediscovered with Lee Miller). His 1923 experimental film Le Retour à la raison was the first 'cine-rayograph', a motion picture made without the use of a camera.[53] Ray's 1935 Space Writing (Self-Portrait) was the first light painting, predating Picasso's 1949 light paintings, photographed by Gjon Mili, by fourteen years.[54]}