A friend of Marcel Duchamp and many other artists, Man Ray portrayed the creative elite of his time--Salvador Dali, Picasso, Luis Bunuel, and James Joyce, among them. He founded modern object art and raised photography to the level at which it was recognized as being an artistic genre in its own right. In addition, he was an acute observer of his times and probably the most influential source of inspiration for the avant-garde movements of the 1920s...