Man Ray: Trees + Flowers Insects Animals Trees + Flowers Insects Animals is a series of landscape photographs from the 1920s through the to the 1950s. Locked away in enormous bank vaults and largely removed from public scrutiny for more than a decade, the collection of the little-known Man Ray Trust is comprised of more than 4,000 works by the great photographer and artist. Man Ray: Trees & Flowers--Insects & Animals is an archival project that draws extensively on this collection. The title of the series was found scrawled across the back of a photograph, and it conveys the indexical nature of this most unusual archive. For Man Ray, the photographs functioned as a research index to the themes and motifs that he employed in better-known

Published by Publisher : Steidl 18 May 2009, 2009

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John P. Jacob is McEvoy Family Curator for Photography at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC. Foresta built one of the world's premier collections of American photography at the Smithsonian. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover . 368 pages. Dust jacket excellent condition. 9 x 10.5 inches.

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Man Ray: Trees + Flowers Insects Animals Trees + Flowers Insects Animals is a series of landscape photographs from the 1920s through the to the 1950s. Locked away in enormous bank vaults and largely removed from public scrutiny for more than a decade, the collection of the little-known Man Ray Trust is comprised of more than 4,000 works by the great photographer and artist. Man Ray: Trees & Flowers--Insects & Animals is an archival project that draws extensively on this collection. The title of the series was found scrawled across the back of a photograph, and it conveys the indexical nature of this most unusual archive. For Man Ray, the photographs functioned as a research index to the themes and motifs that he employed in better-known
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John P. Jacob, Merry A. Foresta
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Publisher : Steidl 18 May 2009
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2009

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Founded by Patrick Marrin's father George in 1946, Marrin's Bookshop has been based in its current Folkestone location since 1963. Patrick has worked in bookselling since 1970. As well as rare antiquarian books, maps and prints, the stock includes a wide range of literature, library sets, travel, history and illustrated books in all fields. We also offer a bookbinding and restoration service. Visitors to the shop are welcome and we exhibit at UK book fairs. A large proportion of our stock can be searched on this website, or at http://www.marrinbook.co.uk.…

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