ManRay : despreocupado pero no indiferente = Unconcerned but not indifferent by Man Ray (1890-1976) - 2007

Madrid : La Fabrica, 2007. First Edition. Hardback. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new and still in the publisher's protective shrink-wrap.; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 391 pages; 391 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. Produced in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Museo Colecciones I.C.O., Madrid, as part of the PHotoEspana Festival 30 May-22 July 2007. Exhibits are taken entirely from the collections of the Man Ray Trust, Long Island, New York. Text in English and Spanish. Summary: ""Unconcerned But Not Indifferent"" is a beautifully produced monograph that draws exclusively on the archives of the Man Ray Trust, one of the largest Man Ray archives in the world, and one which has remained largely unexcavated since it was brought to the U.S. in the late 1990s. The book is structured chronologically across the four phases of Man Ray's working life, in New York, Paris, Los Angeles and Paris again. Works reproduced here range from typographic studies done in 1908, through paintings, objects and sculptures to Man Ray's pioneering photography, from the ""Rayographs"" (abstract photographs produced from found objects) and ""Solarizations"" (a procedure of tonal reversion developed by Man Ray and Lee Miller), to his fantastic portraits of Andre Derain,Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau, and many others.