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Self Portrait - Hardcover

Ray, Man

 
9780821217054: Self Portrait

Synopsis

The notorious American painter, photographer, expatriate, and iconoclast recreates his life and times in New York, Paris, and Hollywood, and offers insightful anecdotes about Picasso, Joyce, Dali and others.

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Review

MAN RAY, masculine noun, synonymous with joy, to play, to enjoy (Marcel Duchamp)

About the Author

Born Emmanuel Radnitzky (1890-1976), Man Ray grew up in America but spent the greater part of his life as an emigre in Paris. Man Ray's art ranges from painting, sculpture, collage, constructed objects and photography. Beginning in 1921, he received hundreds of commissions for portraits and commercial work which were featured in publications such as Vogue, Vu, Harper's Bazaar and Vanity Fair. He was an American, but worked in Paris from 1921 to 1940, when Duchamp, Stieglitz, Picasso and Dali were among his colleagues. A member of the Dada art movement and the only American member of the Paris Surrealist movement, Man Ray considered himself an artist and thought of photography as a medium of artistic expression when used for more than reproduction. In describing his work, Man Ray once said, 'I paint what can not be photographed. I photograph what I do not wish to paint.'

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