Négatif original d'une photographie du portrait de Luis Buñuel

Original negative of a photograph of the portrait of Luis Buñuel made by his friend Man Ray in the 1930s.
Luis Buñuel met Man Ray in the mid-1920s when he met the Parisian artistic community. The two creators will rub shoulders in the surrealist arena: "Man Ray had just finished his film The Mystery , he invited his surrealist friends to a projection at the cinema of the Ursulines.The film of Man Ray was exciting ..., Breton and the others expressed their satisfaction when the owner of the room asked them to stay another fifteen minutes to see a film brought the day before by two young Spaniards " [1] . If we are to believe certain viewers of this session, it was different and the reception of Man Ray's film was quite different. A direct witness, Denise Tual, writes in The Heart of Time [2] : "The first part of the program, The Mystery of the Castle of Dice , was greeted politely without more ... a thunderous applause greeted the end of An Andalusian Dog ". [3]
Far from resenting this event because of which he ended his career as a filmmaker, Man Ray will remain close to Buñuel throughout his life and will make several portraits of his friend. After the defeat of France in 1940, Man Ray will exile in Hollywood, he will continue to attend Buñuel who then works for the Warner Bros.