Description

FIRST EDITION of this editorial masterpiece by Guy Levis Mano, featuring 12 heliogravure photographs by Man Ray interweaving Nush's naked body and the poems of her husband Paul Éluard.

One of 1200 numbered copies on vellum.

"It is because of the integration of images with text that this work has been fundamental to modernism and a source of inspiration for generations of graphic designers" (The Photobook: A HistoryMartin Parr and Gerry Badger)

This first collaboration between the poet and the artist was also that of a great friendship and was followed two years later by Les Mains libres. When Nush died, Man Ray and Eluard collaborated again on a tribute book published anonymously, Time overflows.