Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky) was an American painter and photographer who spent most of his career in Paris. He was best known for his innovative photography but he considered himself a painter more than a photographer.

Note that the model in the ad is partially reversed and has a dark black line around her shoulders. This is a resutl of a photographic phenomenon called the Sabattier Effect, which Man Ray,in some of his partial reversal work, mistakenly referred to as solarization. In a discrete way the Sabattier Effect in the Christian Dumas ad pay homage to Man Ray's partial reversal work.