Man Ray's most beautiful and surprising photographs, including many lesser-known images, are gathered here in a search, for the absolute modernity which he pursued throughout his artistic career. The selection includes photographs of his studios in Paris and New York, and a series of portraits, nudes and still lifes, all revisited through the innovative techniques Man Ray developed, such as rayographs, aerographs and solarizations. With an original text by the artist and a detailed chronology, this book provides a fitting tribute to one of the great masters of 20th-century photography.