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Man ray photograms

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Man Ray; Dora Maar; 1936 "An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human." -ray

Man Ray (born Emmanuel Radnitzky) ]was an American modernist artist who spent most of his career in Paris, France. He was a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal. He produced major works in a variety of media but considered himself a painter above all. He was best known in the art world for his avant-garde photography, and he was a renowned fashion and portrait photographer. Ray is also noted for his work with photograms, which…

Man Ray Photography

Surrealist photography has come a long way. While Photoshop and other post-processing programs make it fairly easy to create surrealist photographs, back

The Modernist Lens: Man Ray and the Photogram – Smart Art

“[Man Ray] reinvented photography – a technique to which his ingenuity opened countless possibilities – and endowed it with the wings of poetry.” Before glass plate and film photography and long before today’s digital camera age, there was the photogram. Simply put, a photogram is a photographic image made without a ca

Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky). Rayograph. 1922 | MoMA

Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky). Untitled (plate 7) from the album Champs Délicieux. 1922. Gelatin silver print after rayograph. 8 7/8 × 6 3/4" (22.5 × 17 cm). Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund. 253.1935.7. © 2023 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. Portfolio. Photography

Final weekend! "Modern Photographs from the Thomas Walther Collection, 1909–1949" closes Sun. http://bit.ly/1CYIAol

“Final weekend! "Modern Photographs from the Thomas Walther Collection, 1909–1949" closes Sun. http://t.co/nqI2CgJqmh”

Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky). Rayograph. 1922 | MoMA

Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky). Rayograph. 1922. Gelatin silver print (photogram). 9 3/8 × 7 1/16" (23.9 × 17.9 cm). Gift of James Thrall Soby. 626.1941. © 2023 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. Photography

Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky). Rayograph. 1922. Gelatin silver print (photogram). 8 15/16 x 6 3/4" (22.7 x 17.1 cm). Purchase. 253.1935.4. © 2018 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. Photography

Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky). Untitled (plate 4) from the album Champs Délicieux. 1922. Gelatin silver print after rayograph. 8 15/16 × 6 3/4" (22.7 × 17.1 cm). Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund. 253.1935.4. © 2023 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. Portfolio. Photography

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Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky) Rayograph, 1923  Theory of chance/Dada...allowed hand and mind of the artist and the making of art has been redirected towards a process that is out of the control of the maker.  Man Ray used the Rayogram in order to arrange objects of light sensitive paper and exposing them to the sun with the result that the objects disappeared into their own negative shadows, freeing Ray from the preconceived notion of what a “photograph” should be.

Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky). Rayograph. 1923. Gelatin silver print. 11 9/16 × 9 1/16" (29.4 × 23 cm). Gift of James Thrall Soby. 118.1941. © 2023 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. Photography