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Man Ray (American, 1890-1976)
Born Emmanuel Radnitzky, in Philadelphia, Man Ray was a painter by training and learned to use a camera to photograph his own art works. In 1921, a patron enabled him to go to Paris, where he turned to fashion photography and portraiture to earn a living. His photographic manipulations and experiments with light led to rediscoveries such as "rayographs" (photograms), 1921-1922, and solarization, in 1929. He was one of the leading spirits of Dadaism and Surrealism and the only American artist to play a prominent role in those two influential movements.
Selected Bibliography Ray, Man. Photographs by Man Ray, 105 Works, 1920-1934. Texts by: Ray, Eluard, Breton, Tzara. Portrait of Ray by Picasso. Hartford, Conn.: James Thrall Soby, 1934. New York: Republication by Dover Publications, 1979. Ray, Man. Self-Portrait. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1963. |
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