Louis Aragon (French, 1897 - 1982), was a novelist and later journalist, who along with André Breton and Philippe Soupault was an important member of Paris Dada and founding member of the Surrealist movement in 1924. He wrote and published several influential Surrealist texts, such as Le Paysan de Paris (1926) and Le Con d’Irène (1928), the latter considered one of the most scandalous and provocative works of modern fiction. In 1929, he co-published the transgressive work 1929 with Benjamin Péret, which featured pornographic photographs taken by Man Ray. Aragon joined the French Communist Party in 1927, and his increasingly radical political activity led to a break with Surrealism in 1932. He went on to become a hero of the French Resistance during World War II. Man Ray photographed Aragon, often alongside André Breton, throughout the 1920s.