"Man Ray's most famous photograph, Le Violon d'Ingres, combines Dada wordplay with Surrealist imagery. The nude recalls the odalisques of Ingres, while the title refers to Ingres's hobby - playing the violin (which led to the French phrase...
Gelatin silver print. "[...] in 1930 he made his best-known film, the abstract 'Light play, black and white and grey,' based on his own machine-powered mobile, the Light Prop." (excerpt, p.[183])
