Dora Maar: Paris in the Time of Man Ray, Jean Cocteau and Picasso

First edition of Dora Maar: Paris in the Time of Man Ray, Jean Cocteau and Picasso by Louise Baring. First impression. Medium format hardback in near fine condition.  there is some minor crusing to corners of boards, no internal markings, pages clean, binding firm.

About

Highly regarded as a Surrealist photographer in the 1930s, Dora Maar was a fellow student with Henri Cartier-Bresson and friends with Brassai, Man Ray, Jean Cocteau, and Andre Breton, the charismatic leader of the Surrealists. When Maar met Picasso in the mid-1930s, she became the most influential of his many muses, inspiring much of what is considered to be his best work. But during the ten years they were together, she abandoned her career as an acclaimed professional photographer and instead photographed Picasso, including her famous series of him painting Guernica. While Maar was considered an influential Surrealist photographer, most of her work vanished from the public eye once she stopped creating it in the late 1930s. Now, this volume restores her photographs to their place in history, featuring a treasure trove of incredible and never-before-published images.