About this title: This text explores the photographic career of Man Ray whose fertile artistic impulse has made him equally celebrated as a painter, sculptor, writer and film-maker. Taking up photography in 1915 for the purpose of reproducing his paintings, he earned money doing the same for others when he went to live and work in Paris in 1921. This led to a ...
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: (London): Thames and Hudson, (1991).
ISBN-13:9780500274736ISBN:0500274738
Description: -Quarto [11-3/4 inches high by 8-1/4 inches wide], soft covers bound in pictorial black-and-white wraps. The head of the spine is lightly chipped. 255 & [1] pages. Profuse black-and-white illustrations from photographs by Man Ray. Near fine. Later printing. The book is based on an exhibition held at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris from December 1981 to April 1982. read more
Description: NY: Thames & Hudson, 1991. 253 pages. Reprint, 1st edition thus. Oversize Trade paperback. Introduction by Jean-Hubert Martin. Three texts by Man Ray. Very Good+. Slight reading crease on spine. Narrow crease on rear panel. Other than that book is tight and bright. ISBN: 0500274738 Originally published in 1982 in conjunction with Man Ray exhibition at the Pompidou Centre in Paris. read more
Binding: softcover-
Publisher: Thames & Hudson, London, England
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780500274736ISBN:0500274738
Description: New- 30 x 21 cms. 256 pages-in English-347 duotone illustrations-published to coincide with the 1981 showing at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris of a selection of classic and less familiar photographs by American photographer Man Ray (1890-1976), incl. portraits of luminaries such as Virginia Woolf and Antonin Artaud and a large selection of erotic pictures-essays by Philippe Sers and Herbert Molderings-illustrations-3 texts by Man Ray-illustrations-chronology and index. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780500274736ISBN:0500274738
Description: As New. 0500274738. Text pristine & unmarked, tight to the spine-Corresponds to / 1981 edition of ISBN: 0500274738. Text in English. 256 pp. With 8 text ills. And 339 ills. On 202 pls. 30 x 22 cm.; 0.87 x 11.65 x 8.19 Inches. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780500274736ISBN:0500274738
Description: Very Good- 0500274738. Panels are rubbed and tanned; chips and bumps to edges; scuffing to panels else a very good copy. Light tanning within else pages are clean and binding tight. Photography. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.; 0.87 x 11.65 x 8.19 Inches; 256 pages. read more
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Covers slightly rubbed, Text in English, French. 256 pages, soft cover. Man Ray's photographs of his contemporaries, erotica, rayographs and others. Oversize. read more
Edition: Later Printing
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Thames & Hudson, New York
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780500274736ISBN:0500274738
Description: Fine. 0500274738. 4to 11"-13" tall; 256 pages; Man Ray: I paint what cannot be photographed, I photograph the things I don't want to paint....I would photograph an idea rather than an object, and a dream rather than an idea. " Man Ray's own words suggest the essence of his brilliant, original, and deeply influential photographic oeuvre. Taking up photography in 1915 for the purpose of reproducing his paintings, he earned money doing the same thing for others when he went to live and work in ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Schirmer/Mosel
Date Published: 1982
Description: Very Good. Used, very good with no writing or marks; 347 Duotone Plates; Text is in German; Picture posted and available; Sealed in Protective Shrinkwrap. This is an OVERSIZE book and can only ship priority or outside the USA by special arrangement. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Thames & Hudson, New York
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780500274736ISBN:0500274738
Description: As New. 11.75" x 8.25" In publishers shrink wrap. 256 pages. 347 duotone illustations. Based on an exhibition held at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris 1981-1982. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Thames & Hudson, New York
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780500274736ISBN:0500274738
Description: As New. 11.75" x 8.25" In publishers shrink wrap. 256 pages. 347 duotone illustations. Based on an exhibition held at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris 1981-1982. read more
Description: NY: Thames & Hudson, 1982. 256 pp. First thus. Oversize trade paperback, 8.25 x 11.75 inches. Profuse b/w photos. Chronology. Index. Near fine. Some generally light edge & corner wear. ISBN: 0500274738. read more
Edition: Reprint. First published in 1987. Illustrated.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Thames & Hudson, London
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780500274736ISBN:0500274738
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. Excellent condition! 256 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED! ! ! read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Soft Back
Publisher: Thames & Hudson, UK
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780500274736ISBN:0500274738
Description: Fine. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. WE SPECIALIZE IN PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS. 255pp. 347 duotone plates. Ray's photos ranged from nudes to portraits of celebrated artists, musicians and writers such as Breton, Duchamp, Shönberg, TS Eliot, Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf and Antonin Artaud. He experimented with light effects outside the camera: -cliché-verres, [manipulated glass slides] rayographs and solarizations. Three texts by Man Ray. Essays by Sers, Molderings and Janus. Well printed images. Chronology. ... read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Soft Back
Publisher: Thames & Hudson, UK
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780500274736ISBN:0500274738
Description: Fine. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. WE SPECIALIZE IN PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS. 255pp. 347 duotone plates. Ray's photos ranged from nudes to portraits of celebrated artists, musicians and writers such as Breton, Duchamp, Shönberg, TS Eliot, Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf and Antonin Artaud. He experimented with light effects outside the camera: -cliché-verres, [manipulated glass slides] rayographs and solarizations. Three texts by Man Ray. Essays by Sers, Molderings and Janus. Well printed images. Chronology. ... read more
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