Man Ray

Name: Man Ray
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ISBN: 9781588398024

When Objects Dream

Stephanie D'Alessandro, Stephen C. Pinson

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Metropolitan Museum of Art
08 December 2025

Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus; Individual artists, art monographs; Exhibition catalogues & specific collections; Individual photographers

The first in-depth study of Man Ray's groundbreaking rayographs of the 1920s and their interconnections with his Dada and Surrealist works

Man Ray (1890–1976) worked in a range of media, but central to his practice was the rayograph, a type of photogram (or camera-less photograph) that he revolutionized and introduced into the Dada and Surrealist milieu of 1920s Paris. Oscillating between representation and abstraction, painting and photography, the rayograph was ambiguous in its making and subject matter, epitomizing avant-garde concerns of the day.

This richly illustrated book is the first to look at Man Ray's work through the lens of his eponymous process, tracing a through line from the rayographs to his paintings, photographs, drawings, objects, and films, and highlighting the interconnections and shared motifs among them. Stephanie D'Alessandro and Stephen C. Pinson analyze Man Ray's innovative methods while also exploring key themes across his art production, such as chance, indeterminacy, transformation, and the dualities of solid and transparent, shadow and light, form and space, and object and body.

Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press

Exhibition Schedule:

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

(September 14, 2025–February 1, 2026)

By: Stephanie D'Alessandro, Stephen C. Pinson
Imprint: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 229mm,
ISBN: 9781588398024
ISBN 10: 1588398021
Pages: 338
Publication Date: 08 December 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Stephanie D’Alessandro is the Leonard A. Lauder Curator of Modern Art and Senior Research Coordinator in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, and Stephen C. Pinson is curator in the Department of Photographs, both at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Reviews for Man Ray: When Objects Dream

“The book’s essays are in-depth and meticulously researched, uncovering stories behind the artist’s most recognised, but little studied, pieces.”—Eleanor Sutherland, Aesthetica