Ray s adidas ultraboost 20 artistic connections soon allowed him to become the fashion photographer of choice in the 1920s, with filmmaker and writer Jean Cocteau introducing him to everyone who was anyone. He regularly photographed society figures for Vogue, and in 1924 produced a striking image of US heiress Peggy Guggenheim exuding oriental opulence in a typically decadent Poiret creation. Although his early work was often indistinguishable from other photographers at Vogue, he was already experimenting with enlarging his portraits.  This enlargement creates blurring effects and allows the grain of the photomechanical grid to appear clearly visible, which is typical of Man Ray s photographs, says co-curator Maud Marron-Wojewodzki. His desire for experimentation also led him to produce images such as Noire et Blanche (Black and White), which first appeared in a May 1926 edition of Vogue. The pale, elongated face of his then lover, Kiki de Montparnasse, is juxtaposed with an African ceremonial mask in an image that references Surrealist ideas of the unconscious and the photographic process itself.

Ray brought this technique, and the many others he had developed over the previous decade, adidas basketball shoes to Harper s Bazaar, which he began working for in 1934. Here he was truly able to reconcile commercial constraints with a desire for originality, helped in no small part by the uniquely creative environment he was entering. Editor-in-chief Carmel Snow and artistic director Alexey Brodovitch were keen to raise the status of photography, and Ray s technical innovations combined perfectly white adidas shoes with Brodovitch s desire to revolutionise the layout of the journal. The freedom he was given  allowed him to produce images bordering on abstraction which embodied the very essence of fashion , says Örmen.

In startling compositions, Ray shows models in Schiaparelli reclining on white plinths as if they were sculptures or irreverently places a model in a sumptuous pleated silver gown by Madeleine Vionnet in a padded wheelbarrow. Elsewhere he overprinted images or shot multiple viewpoints to dramatically emphasise the movement of a dress. Artwork was frequently included in his compositions. Models were positioned in front of birds by Giacometti, and Man Ray s own painting of Lee Miller s lips, A L heure de l observatoire  Les adidas tennis shoes Amoureux (Observatory Time  The Lovers)  (1936), derived from a 1930 photograph, appeared as a backdrop to a spread in 1936 in which a reclining model reached her hand up.

But just as he was hitting his creative peak, Ray turned his back on fashion photography. When the outbreak of World War Two necessitated a return to the US he abandoned it completely, fearing his commercial reputation was beginning to erase his artistic one. Despite his indifference, Ray s ground-breaking techniques and innovative compositions undoubtedly raised the status of fashion photography to an artform, and images including Larmes and Noire et Blanche have become icons of 20th-Century photography.

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But there are other types of baths that are gaining in currency. Sound-bath sessions using gongs or Tibetan singing bowls have been named as one of 2020's Conde Nast Traveller's biggest wellness trends. Once found principally at New Age retreats, their acolytes today include high-profile figures such as Robert Downey Jr and Charlize Theron. But behind the glossy celebrity patronage lies a long history. For more than 40,000 years, aboriginal tribes used the didgeridoo in similar ways. In the Tibetan spiritual tradition, gongs are believed to  have deep spiritual links with the nature of the cosmos.