In 1929 Lee Miller approached Man Ray, an artist 17 years her senior, asking him to be her mentor. The elder artist reluctantly agreed, and they began their surreal love affair. Four years after SF MOMA's exhibition focusing on Miller, Legion of Honor presents 115 works made during their four-year affair and artistic collaboration.
Man Ray, born Emmanuel Radnitzky, became enmeshed in New York's Dada scene through his friendship with Marcel Duchamp. Lee Miller was serving as a model for photographer Edward Steichen when he recommended she seek Ray out as a teacher. Ray was involved with cabaret singer Alice Prin (aka Kiki de Montparnasse) at the time, but it was not long before Ray and Miller fell in love. While Miller's physical beauty entranced Ray as both a subject and a lover, her feminism and creative drive drove her to work behind the camera as well as in front of it. The exhibition's main argument rebuts the fable that Miller was merely Ray's muse, offering up instead a mutual collaboration in which both artists influence and help advance each other's visions.
Observatory Time – The Lovers (1936)
The exhibition is composed of 115 paintings, drawings and manuscripts from the surrealist giants, as well as works by their contemporaries and friends, including Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst and Alexander Calder. It depicts the accidental discovery of solarization, a photography technique in which a dark aura surrounds a negative that has been exposed to a flash of light. 
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