Minotaur

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.