Man Ray: La photographie n’est pas l’art Gifts including the dissemination of infinite

including the dissemination of infinite images via television

) The works’ subjects include a colony of ants with a Surrealist caption

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This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Richard Artschwager at Gagosian

Man Ray: La photographie n’est pas l’art Gifts including the dissemination of infiniteProvocatively proclaiming that photography is not art, this 1937 publication by Man Ray reproduces twelve of the artists photographs in an unbound book. Verses by Andr Breton labeled convulsionnaires serve as an introduction that announces, Mais voici Man Ray. Voici lhomme tte de lanterne magique. (Here is Man Ray. Here is a man with a magic lantern head.) The works subjects include a colony of ants with a Surrealist caption, cerveau bien ordonn (well