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Man Ray is the quintessential modernist figure - painter, sculptor, photographer, filmmaker, poet, and philosopher. One of the most fascinating of the Surrealists who transformed the Paris art world during the 1920s, Man Ray was an enigma - a Dadaist who revered the Old Masters, an anarchist pursued by wealthy patrons. Driven to make his mark in as many art forms as possible, he struggled bitterly to win acceptance as a painter even as his skill as a photographer brought him world wide fame.

La Vie sans fards répond à une double ambition. D'abord je me suis toujours demandé pourquoi toute tentative de se raconter aboutissait à un fatras de demi-vérités. Trop souvent les autobiographies et les mémoires deviennent des constructions de fantaisie. Il semble que l'être humain soit tellement désireux de se peindre une existence différente de celle qu'il a vécue, qu'il l'embellit, souvent malgré lui. Il faut donc considérer La Vie sans fards comme une tentative de parler-vrai, de rejeter les mythes et les idéalisations flatteuses et faciles.

On April 14, 1998, Sarah de Vries disappeared from her usual spot on the corner of Princess and Hastings in Vancouver. She became one of the many women who had vanished from the Downtown Eastside—women, most of them sex workers and drug addicts—whose DNA would later be found on the Pickton farm.

An irreverent, tragicomic, astoundingly articulate memoir about going blind—and growing up On his eighteenth birthday, Ryan Knighton was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a congenital, progressive disease marked by night-blindness, tunnel vision, and, eventually, total blindness. In this penetrating, nervy memoir, which ricochets between meditation and black comedy, Knighton tells the story of his fifteen-year descent into blindness while incidentally revealing the world of the sighted in all its phenomenal peculiarity.