Self-Portrait

In this remarkable autobiography Man Ray - painter photographer sculptor film maker and writer - relates the story of his life from his childhood determination to be an artist and his technical drawing classes in a Brooklyn high school to the glamorous and heady days of Paris in the 1940s when any trip to the city 'was not complete until they had been done by Man Ray's camera'.. Friend to everyone who was anyone Ray tells everything he knows of artists socialites and writers such as Matisse Hemingway Picasso and Joyce not to mention Lee Miller Nancy Cunard Alberto Giacometti Gertrude Stein Dali Max Ernst and many more in this decadent sensational account of the early twentieth-century cultural world.