In Paris, in the 1920s, Man Ray began experimenting with photograms, pictures made by placing objects on photosensitive paper and exposing it to light. In these works, which he called “rayographs,” after himself, light is both the subject and medium; the rayographs on view in this exhibition are some of his most exquisite. In Le Retour à la raison (Return to Reason), the artist extended the rayograph technique to moving images—he sprinkled salt and pepper onto one piece of film and pins onto another and added sequences of night shots at a fairground and a segment showing a paper mobile dancing with its own shadow. The final sequence of the film introduces Man Ray’s legendary model Alice Prin—also known as Kiki of Montparnasse—naked, her body illuminated in stripes of light.