Man Ray
1929
"The Primacy of Matter over Thought" (Le primat de la matière sur la pensée)

Gelatin silver print, solarized
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The sitter was Lee Miller - Rosalind Krauss & Jane Livingston, L'Amour fou: Photography & Surrealism (The Corcoran Gallery of Art / Abbeville Press, 1985) In this exhibition catalogue, Rosalind Krauss discusses Man Ray's landmark 1929 solarized photograph Le Primat de la matière sur la pensée (fig. 52) and documents the image featuring Lee Miller during the year they began their artistic partnership and discovery of the solarization technique.
 
Christie's, Live Auction 3514,November 17, 2012, Photographs, Lot: 117, Price Realized: EUR 661,000
 
A. Breton, Surrealism in the Service of the Revolution , Paris, No. 3, December 1931 (another illustrated version); J.H. Martin, Man Ray Photographer , Philippe Sers, Paris, 1981, published on the occasion of the exhibition at the National Museum of Modern Art, pp. 20-21 (another illustrated version); R. Krauss, J. Livingston, D. Ades; Mad Love: Photography and Surrealism , Corcoran Gallery of Art, New York, 1985 (variant cover)
 
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