Man Ray
Documents for artists, treated as art: Eugène Atget at MOMA
One photograph from this period depicts a group of people looking at the sky during an eclipse; it manages to look both communal and creepy, as if they were all waiting to be lifted off the earth. It was that image that Man Ray put on the cover of La Révolution surréaliste, but Atget was not credited, nor was he credited for the several images Man Ray put inside the journal. Atget wouldn't allow it. Though the Surrealists were interested in his work, it meant something to Atget not to be associated with avant-garde artists. More
