In Man Ray's most famous photograph, 'Le Violon d'Ingres', the surreal, the sexual, and the French Neoclassical combine. Man Ray, Le violon d’Ingres (1924). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bluff ...

Despite the fact that I have seen many, many art shows sanctifying 1920s modernism from seemingly every angle, the “Mouvement Flou” is a new one to me. The term, meaning the “blurry” or “out of focus” ...

In his “rayographs,” he raved, he was finally “working directly with light itself.” The showstopper is the most expensive photograph ever sold at auction. By Arthur Lubow In the winter of 1921, Man ...