Man Ray

This issue of Les Feuilles Libres contains the first publication of one of Man Ray's rayographs, preceding Les Champs Délicieux (1922) by several months.

• Paris: Librairie Stock, 1922.
• Octavo.
• Includes a laid-in plate with a tipped-in rayograph by Man Ray printed in relief halftone.
• With illustrations based on drawings by Picasso within the text.
• Includes texts by Marcel Proust, Jean Cocteau, Max Jacob, Max Ernst and Paul Eluard, Jean Epstein, Blaise Cendrars, André Lhote and others.
• Bound in white printed wrappers, text in black.

In the text accompanying the rayographs, "An Open Letter to M. Man Ray, American Photographer," Jean Cocteau writes that with the rayographs, Man Ray has "accomplished an ironic reversal of the avant-garde axiom according to which photography has freed painters from the task of realistic representation, thus enabling them to pursue abstraction." (translated in Photography in the Modern Era 1)