Exhibition of the Week: Man Ray Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London WC2

Man Ray's 'Solarized Portrait of Lee Miller' (c1929) (Man Ray Trust)

Leading light of the surrealists, lover of women, ever experimental in form, Man Ray was also a supreme portrait photographer for his friends and for fashion magazines from the Twenties into the Seventies.

Picasso, Duchamps, Lee Miller, Chanel and a cast of luminaries of Paris, London and Hollywood are caught and caressed by his camera though a half-century working life. His fondness for people is the overwhelming sense you get from this compelling exhibition.

At bottom, he seems to have been a romantic. Anyone interested in the time or photography should rush to go.

(020 7306 0055; npg.org.uk) to 27 May