Laboratory of the Future

1933–1934

Méret Oppenheim poses nude

The Surrealist artist Méret Oppenheim, known for her fur-covered teacup, poses nude for a well-known series of photographs in which she stands next to a printing press.

1934

An album of fifteen years of photographs

James Thrall Soby publishes an album of Ray's photographs made over the previous fifteen years, Man Ray: Photographs, 1920–1934.

late 1934 – August 1940

Ady Fidelin — companion and model

Ray is in a relationship with the French art model Ady Fidelin, who appears in many of his photographs; when he flees Nazi-occupied France, she chooses to stay behind to care for her family.

1935–1937

Books with Paul Éluard and André Breton

Ray makes books with poets: Facile with Paul Éluard (1935), and La photographie n'est pas l'art with André Breton and Les mains libres (drawings) with Éluard, both in 1937.

1937

Formal divorce from Adon Lacroix

Ray and Adon Lacroix are formally divorced, years after their separation.