Dreaming of Paris

Gelatin silver print 14 x 11 in.

© Ilse Bing Estate / Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York
Courtesy Zabriskie Gallery, NY

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Gelatin silver print 8 3/4 x 11 in.

© Estate of Ilse Bing / Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York
Courtesy Galerie Karsten Greve AG, St. Moritz, Switzerland

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Gelatin silver print 9 7/8 x 7 3/4 in.

© Estate of André Kertész / Higher Pictures
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

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Gelatin silver print 8 5/8 in. x 6 7/16 in.

© 2009 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

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Gelatin silver print 29 7/8 x 20 1/8 in.

© 2009 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Ubu Gallery, New York & Galerie Berinson, Berlin

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Gelatin silver print 9 1/8 in. x 11 ¾ in.

© Estate of André Kertész/Higher Pictures
Purchase, gift of Mr. Edwynn Houk, Renée & Paul Mansheim, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Lane Stokes, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Robert K. Molloy, Mr. Robert McLanahan Smith, III, Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Waitzer, Mr. Calvin H. Childress, Mr. and Mrs. Howard M. Martinez, Jr., and in memory of Alice R. and Sol B. Frank, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA

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Gelatin silver print, 9 3/8 x 7 in.

© 2009 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

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Gelatin silver print 9 1/8 in. x 6 1/6 in.

© Estate Germaine Krull, Museum Folkwang, Essen
Collection of the Sack Photographic Trust of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

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Gelatin silver print 5 3/8 x 3 ½ in.

© Estate Germaine Krull, Museum Folkwang, Essen
Museum purchase, Horace W. Goldsmith and Art Purchase Funds, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA

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Gelatin silver print 9 ¾ x 7 1/8 in.

© Estate of André Kertész / Higher Pictures
Courtesy of Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago

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Gelatin-silver print (printed by Berenice Abbott) 9 x 6 ½ in.

Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA.

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Albumen print 9 in. x 7 in.

Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. by Exchange, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA

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Gelatin silver photograph 11 15/16 x 9 3/6 in.

© 2009 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Gift of the Annenberg Foundation, courtesy of Wallis Annenberg, The Manfred Heiting Collection

Dreaming of Paris

With photographs by Man Ray, Brassaï, and Ilse Bing, a new exhibition of Surrealist images from the 1920s and ’30s captures the magic and majesty of the City of Light.