From 1946 onward, he started creating his first photograms and solarizations on paper in his Parisian apartment. He then met André Breton to whom he showed his work. His first abstract photographs were taken by means of a circular reflector equipped with small mirrors, which multiplied and fragmented the subject matter. For his first attempt, he used a copy of an Etruscan object and photographed it through the fragments of fluted glass. He entitled it “Trésor de Golcondo” (“Treasures of Golcondo”).