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"A semi-autobiographical middle-grade graphic novel about a Canadian-Chinese boy who feels invisible at home and in school but longs to stand out"--

Welcome to the first edition of Thinking Strong and Feeling Smart. This graphic workbook is for primary school-aged children and their teachers, carers or therapists to inspire self-awareness and facilitate the exploration of emotional intelligence, self-regulation techniques and a growth mindset. Each piece of art has been lovingly created by author/illustrator Heather J. Ray, founder of My Wellbeing School, with over fifteen years of experience teaching adults and children mindfulness, meditation and wellbeing principles.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Network and System Security, NSS 2014, held in Xi'an, China, in October 2014. The 35 revised full papers and 12 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 155 initial submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on cloud computing, access control, network security, security analysis, public key cryptography, system security, privacy-preserving systems and biometrics, and key management and distribution.

In this autobiography, May Ray - painter, photographer, sculptor, film maker and writer - relates the story of his life, from his childhood determination to be an artist and his technical drawing classes in a Brooklyn high school, to the glamorous and heady days of Paris in the 1940s and beyond.

When American-born Surrealist Man Ray died in 1976, he left behind thousands of photo negatives, mostly portraits taken in his studio after his arrival in Paris in 1921. The Centre Georges Pompidou, which has owned them since the mid-1990s, has duly catalogued the collection of negatives and is now in a position to bring out what is an encyclopedic publication in the best sense of the term. It attests both to Man Ray s ability as a portrait photographer and to the quality of his archive as a monument to cultural history. The catalog features 500 portraits, each of which is explained in a short commentary. Since Man Ray's clientele was made up of members of Dadaist and Surrealist circles, of artists and painters, of writers and US emigrants of the Lost Generation, of aristocrats, and paragons of the worlds of fashion and theater, the book is at the same time a marvelous Who's Who and an indispensable reference work for a broad range of different historians and scholars of the 20th century.

Aus dem Nachwort von Herbert Molderings: Während heute die Frage „Ist Fotografie Kunst?“ kein ernst zu nehmender Streitpunkt mehr ist und allein schon durch die astronomischen Preise beantwortet wird, die für Fotografien auf Kunstauktionen gezahlt werden, führte sie zur Zeit der klassischen Moderne noch zu leidenschaftlich geführten Debatten. Zur Verteidigung des künstlerischen Werts der Fotografie hatte die Pariser Kunstzeitschrift L`Art vivant 1929 eine Artikelserie mit der Überschrift „La photographie est-elle un art?“ (Ist Fotografie Kunst?) veröffentlicht. Einer der ersten, deren Werk herangezogen wurde, um diese Frage zu bejahen, war Man Ray. Dieser zeigte sich selbst an der Diskussion dieser Frage nur wenig interessiert. Vom Autor des Artikels um eine Stellungnahme gebeten, antwortete er: „Ob Fotografie Kunst ist? Darum muß man sich nicht mehr kümmern. Die Kunst ist vorbei, eine Sache der Vergangenheit. Wir brauchen heute etwas Anderes. Es genügt, das Licht bei seiner Arbeit zu beobachten. Das Licht ist es, das erschafft. Ich sitze vor meinem lichtempfindlichen Papier und denke nach." (aus dem Nachwort von Herbert Molderings)

“I do not photograph nature, I photograph my fantasy,” Man Ray proclaimed, and he found in the camera's eye and in light's magical chemistry the mechanisms for dreaming. Schooled as a painter and designer in New York, Man Ray turned to photography after discovering the 291 Gallery and its charismatic founder, Alfred Stieglitz. As a young expatriate in Paris during the twenties and thirties, Man Ray embraced Surrealism and Dadaism, creeds that emphasized chance effects, disjunction and surprise. Tireless experimentation with technique led him to employ solarization, grain enlargement, mixed media and cameraless prints (photograms)--which he called “Rayographs”. These successful manipulations for which he was dubbed “the poet of the darkroom” by Jean Cocteau, were a major contribution to twentieth-century photography. Man Ray presents 43 of the greatest images from the artist's career. The essay by Jed Perl describes the influences on Man Ray's career and his enduring contribution to photography.

Man Ray found the surreal in the commonplace, particularly in the female form, and this has made his photography some of the world's most accessible and his ubiquitous La Violin d'Ingres creates a cello from a woman's torso with the addition of curliqued vents inked on her sides; his classic image of shining cinematic tears glistening on a powdered cheek has been tucked into mirror frames all over the world. This collection of more than 130 pictures dated between 1920 and 1950 covers not only Ray's work as one of the world's leading avant-garde artists--he was a tireless experimenter who participated in the Cubist, Dadaist and Surrealist art movements--but also his commercial work. It includes fashion photography and advertising images; portraits of many artists, including Marcel Proust, Marcel Duchamp and Andre Breton; and a portfolio of 26 Femmes. Art dealer Giorgio Marconi, who met May Ray in 1966 in Milan, contributes an insightful interview.

Man Ray is indisputably one of the most original artists of the 20th century. His innovative nude studies, fashion work and portraits opened a new chapter in the history of photography. Born Emmanuel Radnitzky in Philadelphia, he began his artistic career in New York. In 1921 he moved to Paris, where he was enthusiastically welcomed into Dadaist and Surrealist circles. Man Ray - together with Marcel Duchamps, André Breton, Paul Eluard, Louis Aragon and Philippe Soupault - revolutionized the traditional understanding of art. A multi-faceted genius, he not only did photographic portraits of James Joyce, Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso, but he also engaged himself as a fashion photographer for Vogue and Harpers Bazaar. Man Ray experimented tirelessly with new photographic techniques - multiple exposure, rayography and solarization were some of his most famous creations. 'The Man Ray' portfolio features high quality prints that beg to be framed. Tucked in the portfolio are 14 large-format reproductions, each with a brief description.