Man Ray, Tears, 1930-1932, gelatin silver print, 9 x 11 3/4 in., The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Photo by William Cromar via Flickr, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic License.
Man Ray Photographer, Dada and Surrealist Artist Emmanuel Radnitzky was born on August 27th, 1890 in Philadelphia, PA to Russian Jewish immigrants. His father was a garment worker. Man Ray died on November 18, 1976 in Paris where he is buried.
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Rayograph (noun) A type of photograph created by the artist Man Ray for which a camera was not used; rather, various everyday objects were placed on photographic paper and the paper was exposed to light. Man Ray’s “rayographs,” with their … Continue reading
Man Ray, Les Larmes, 1932, gelatin silver print, 9
“I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.” Man Ray