The editor

Manfred Heiting is an internationally acknowledged designer, curator, and expert on and collector of photographs and photobooks; he lives in Malibu and Brussels. He is a founding member of the J. Paul Getty Museum Council and since 2016 UCLA Distinguished Lecturer in the Humanities. He is editor and designer of Deutschland im Fotobuch, The Soviet Photobook, and The Japanese Photobook and co-editor and designer of Autopsie: Deutschsprachige Fotobücher 1918–1945.

The authors

Katherine Ware is a curator of photography at the New Mexico Museum of Art. Her publications include works on Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy.

Emmanuelle de l’Ecotais was photography curator at the Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris from 2001 to 2018. She earned her doctorate in art history with a thesis on Man Ray and is a specialist in his work. She has organised a number of exhibitions in France and abroad, including Man Ray, la photographie à l’envers (Centre Pompidou/Grand Palais 1998), Objectivités, La Photographie à Düsseldorf (ARC, 2008), and Shape of Light, 100 Years of Photography and Abstraction (Tate Modern, 2018). She is the author of several books, notably L’Esprit Dada (Éditions Assouline, 1999), Man Ray – Rayographies (Éditions Léo Scheer, 2002), and Jean-Philippe Charbonnier, Raconter l’autre et l’ailleurs (Hazan, 2020).