Quarto. (14)pp + 104pp of plates with commentary by Pablo Picasso, André Breton, Paul Éluard, Marcel Duchamp (under the guise of his female alter-ego, Rrose Sélavy), and Tristan Tzara. Published in association with Random House and Cahiers d'Art, this summation of Man Ray's work functions both as catalogue and photobook proper. His efforts in surrealism, formative to the movement, engage the outmoded and the unusual in an effort toward what Breton's declaration in Nadja, "Beauty will be convulsive or it will not be." Included here are photogravures his contributions to 20th-century photography, including those from his collaborative photobook with Éluard, Facile, featuring the latter's wife, Nusch, as model. The volume concludes with his Rayographs, his version of camera-less photography in the manner of Lazlo Moholy-Nagy's photograms, both an enterprise in the direct experience of objectivity. Spiral-bound with pictorial cover. Plastic spiral naturally toned and with split to head, modest edgewear, pale stain to first two sheets. Very good, for a title bound as such.