338. PHOTO. MAN RAY'S MYTHOLOGICAL PHOTOGRAPHS 1920-1934 PARIS - HANS HAMMARSKIÖLD'S AND RUNE HASSNER'S EXAMPLES.

Photo. Man Ray, (Eg. Emanuel Rudzitsky, American photographer, artist, etc., (1890-1976). Photographs 1920-1934 Paris. Avec un portrait par Picasso - Texts de André Breton- Paul Eluard - Rrose Sélavy - Tristan Tzara - Preface par Man Ray. Publiées par James Thrall Soby, Hartford, Connecticut & Cahiers d'Art, Paris, 1934. Deuxième Édition, which is actually the first edition, second printing since the publisher, for promotional purposes, replaced the title page of the first printing with a similar one marked Deuxième Édition to increase sales. Large spiral bound 4th with a color photo illustrated front cover. Illustrated with 104 black-and-white photogravures of Man Ray's rayograms, portraits, nude studies, abstracts and solarized images. The texts in English and French.
Bibliographic ref. Roth, 80 and Auer, 210.
Provenance. With photographer Hans Hammarskiöld's (1925-2012) ex-libris on the title page and photographer Rune Hassner's (1928-2003) name stamp on the inside of the cover with a pencil note underneath: "Gift from H H. 1978.Man Ray became a leading Dadaist along with Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia in the 1920s. His photography was and is unique, like no one else's even today. Photographies 1920-1934 Paris is a mythological photo book.