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Man Ray was never much interested in the chemical or optical nature of photography, though he championed several experimental darkroom techniques--solarization, overdevelopment, and overenlargement. His best-known innovation was, in fact, a new application of an old idea, the photogram: a cameraless picture formed by the action of light on an ...
He nicknamed the results of his experiments “rayographs,” a combination of his name and the word “photograph.” This rayograph toys with the role of film in photography—instead of developing the film to create a photo in the traditional manner, Man Ray unspooled the roll across the light-sensitive paper to create a spiraling form.
Born Emmanuel Radnitzky in Philadelphia, Man Ray was the eldest child of Russian-Jewish immigrants who changed their surname to ‘Ray’. After the family moved to Brooklyn, Ray studied drawing under the celebrated realist artist, George Bellows, in New York. His visits to Alfred Stieglitz’s gallery, 291, and the seminal Post-Impressionist ...
Apr 18, 2024 · Man Ray’s Rayographs. In Paris, Man Ray pioneered the technique of rayography (a term derived from his surname and photography) creating images without a camera by manipulating objects and light on photosensitive paper. This innovative approach imbued traditional photography with a surreal quality, as seen in his famous Untitled Rayograph ...
Menil Collection. "Perpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray," June 30, 1989–September 17, 1989. Philadelphia Museum of Art. "Perpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray," October 14, 1989–January 7, 1990. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Waking Dream: Photography's First Century, Selections from the Gilman Paper Company Collection," May 25–July 4 ...
Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky). Unconcerned Photograph. 1959. ... Photography Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky) has 193 works online. There are 28,771 photographs online ...
Artist: Man Ray (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1890–1976 Paris) Date: 1933. Medium: Gelatin silver print. Dimensions: 12.1 x 17.8 cm (4 3/4 x 7 in.) Classification: Photographs. Credit Line: Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1986. Accession Number: 1986.1015
