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Man Ray, born Emmanuel Radnitzky in 1890 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was a renowned representative of avant-garde photography in the 20th century and is considered as the pioneer of Surrealist photography. Ray's artistic work is very diverse. He was a painter, object artist, and a film maker.
In 1929 Man Ray hired Lee Miller as an artist assistant. She soon became his lover and the subject in his photographs for three years. Together, they reinvented 'solarization', a photographic process that records images on the negative reversing dark with light and vice versa.
The Kiss, 1922 by Man Ray. Unlike Symbolism masterpiece The Kiss Painting created by Gustav Klimt, Man Ray's Kiss is made by photogram. A photogram is a picture made on photographic paper without the aid of a camera. To make this one, Man Ray exposed the paper to light at least three times.
Glass Tears, 1932 by Man Ray. Looking almost like a film still, this cropped photograph demonstrates Man Ray's interest in cinematic narrative. The model's eyes and mascara-coated lashes are looking upward, invoking the viewers to wonder where she's looking and what is the source of her distress.
I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.”. - Man Ray. I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.”. - Man Ray.
Above all, Man Ray's photography embraced the art director's dictum to 'be alert for new visions and techniques.' In over a decade of work Man Ray had brought life to old processes. He developed a more radical approach to making photograms, naming his camera-less inventions Rayographs.
Observatory Time - The Lovers, or as it has become more familiarly known, The Lips, has been described as the quintessential Surrealist painting, a supreme example of isomorphism, the use of organic forms oddly and obliquely referring to man, in a kind of fastidious, realistic illusionism - the unifying theme in mainstream Surrealist art in the ...
Man Ray, born Emmanuel Radnitzky in 1890 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was a renowned representative of avant-garde photography in the 20th century and is considered as the pioneer of Surrealist photography. Ray's artistic work is very diverse. He was a painter, object artist, and a film maker.
Black and White, 1926 by Man Ray. This photograph of Kiki de Montparnasse's head next to an African ceremonial mask bears a title that references both the black and white process of photography as well as skin color. It was created at a time when African art and culture was much in vogue.
The Lovers, 1933, editioned replica 1973, consists of a rolled lead sheet with the outline of lips painted onto it. A loop of rope extends from one end, suggesting a head, while two other sections of rope, linking the two ends of the lead sheet, complete the suggestion of a body.