In this remarkable autobiography, Man Ray - painter, photographer, sculptor, filmmaker, and writer - narrates the story of his life, from his childhood desire to become an artist and the technical drawing lessons at a high school in Brooklyn, to the glam and dazzling days of Paris in the 1940s, when every trip to the city 'was not complete if it had not been "recorded" by Man Ray's camera'. A friend of every known artist, Ray reveals everything about artists, socialites, and writers such as Matisse, Hemingway, Picasso, and Joyce, as well as Lee Miller, Nancy Cunard, Alberto Giacometti, Gertrude Stein, Dali, Max Ernst, and many others in this relentless, sensational narration of the cultural world of the first half of the 20th century.