Descriptive notes from the J. Paul Getty Museum
[Accessed: 19 March 2011]
In 1931 the Paris electric company CPDE commissioned Man Ray to produce a series of images promoting the personal uses of electricity. The resulting portfolio, Electricité, included ten Rayographs reproduced as photogravures. Le monde (The world), a picture of the moon above an electrical cord, suggests that even celestial bodies are dependent on CPDE for their illumination.
