"Alongside his advertising photography – a field he championed until he founded the National Association of Advertising Photographers in 1952 – Pierre Jahan (1909–2003) experimented extensively, as did László Moholy-Nagy, Man Ray and Christian Schad. The exhibition explores this aspect of his work, notably with the Surrealist Herbarium (1945-1948), a series of photographs in which he superimposed ears of wheat onto images of female nudes. The burnt edges, however, are the scars left by the fire that destroyed his flat in 1948."