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Man Ray / Man Ray (1890-1976) - French and American artist, photographer and film director, whose work had a huge influence on avant-garde art throughout the 20th century: from Dada and surrealism to abstract and commercial photography.

Emmanuel Radnitsky, which is Man Ray's actual name, was born on August 27, 1890 in Philadelphia, where his family had recently emigrated from the Kovno province Russian Empire. Seven years later the family moved to Brooklyn, New York. Four more years later, in 1912, due to frequent anti-Semitic attacks, she was forced to change her last name to Ray. When the young man turned 22, he took the name Man - transforming his real name - Emmanuel, Manni. Soon, the name Man Ray began to sound like a single, united name. It was this name that was destined to become famous. Man Ray with early age showed a high interest in painting. Therefore, in 1908, after graduating from school, he decided to become an artist. Early works classics differ in form and content. Young artist, trying to find himself various styles and directions, including cubism, futurism, abstraction. He was the first among the masters to use a paint sprayer, the so-called airbrush, in painting. All his work is imbued with avant-gardeism, which is so inherent in these times. In 1915, he met the artist Marcel Duchamp, one of the leaders of Dadaism, thanks to whom he actively immersed himself in avant-garde art: he published the New York Dada magazine and created the Anonymous Society, an American organization of avant-garde art.

The work of Alfred Stieglitz, then one of the most influential artists, photographer and philanthropist, had a great influence on the young man. Man Ray became interested in photography at his suggestion. Ray was attracted by the possibilities of photo collage - combining real and fictional images in one image. He buys his first camera in order to take pictures of his own works - paintings, sculptures and compositions, then of friends and acquaintances, and later, in order to earn money, he began to accept orders from everyone who needed such services. In 1920 he began working as a portrait photographer. Man Ray's popularity gradually grew and in the early 1920s he became one of the most sought-after and highly paid photographers in Paris. Soon, being photographed by Man Ray began to be considered prestigious.

In the 1930s, Man Ray began actively working for fashion magazines - Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, Vu and Vanity Fair. He was invited to Harper’s Bazaar by the magazine’s legendary art director Alexey Brodovitch, whose arrival radically changed first the appearance of Bazaar, and then the appearance of the entire American glossy. To transform the magazine, Brodovich attracted the most avant-garde artists who had common friends with Man Ray - Dali, Chagall, Raoul Dufy, Miro, Cocteau and many others, but only Man Ray was the first and for a long time the only sur-photographer who mixed different genres art. Man Ray is the author of the most famous photograph of Coco Chanel.

Man Ray's most famous work is Ingres's Violin, which has become an iconic image of the twentieth century. The well-known Kiki de Montparnasse, the muse of all the famous artists of Paris, posed for this photo. Man Ray's work is something of a photographic pun, an "untranslatable pun", and more precisely images. “Ingres’ violin” is a literal translation of the French idiom violon d’Ingres (literally: this is his “strong point”, his weakness, his favorite activity). This expression owes its origin to the famous French artist Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867), who played the violin well. Since then, the French began to call every artistic hobby by his name.

The number of famous people whose portraits were created by Man Ray is impressive: James Joyce, Tristan Tzara, Jean Cocteau, Louis Aragon and Andre Breton, Gertrude Stein and Elsa Schiaparelli, the Duchess of Windsor and Margaret Oppenheim, Igor Stravinsky and Erik Satie, the famous French singers Juliette Greco and Yves Montand, Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dali, Le Corbusier, Sergei Eisenstein, Robert Delaunay and many, many more.

Man Ray never took his photographs seriously; in his youth, photography was a way to earn money, then it became an outlet, a means of switching attention from painting to sculpture. As Man himself said, he only photographs what is not interesting to draw. But the whole world knows Man Ray primarily as a brilliant photographer, whose images of the faces of the era are eye-catching. Having transferred your artistic vision on film, Man Ray discovered a different side of photography, filling it with secrets, hints and halftones. He was not afraid to experiment, which is why such techniques as radiography and solarization appeared. With radiography, an image is obtained by directly exposing objects to photosensitive paper - the objects appear deformed and refracted, and the solarization effect was obtained by repeated exposure of the negative - objects, faces and bodies acquire mystical shapes.

In 1951, Man Ray stopped filming and began painting exclusively. Many condemned this act of his, to which he replied: “I didn’t leave the photo. I've been a photographer for 35 years. I have been a painter for 35 years. I'm a living person double life. In photography I can do everything that I do in painting. There are no boundaries. Some say that this is a fraud, to which I answer - today's lie is tomorrow's truth."

The great creator, artist and photographer died in Paris, within the walls of his native studio in 1976. He was not much or little then - 86 years old. Buried in Montparnasse Cemetery. “Impartial, but not indifferent,” says the epitaph carved on his grave.

Man Ray / Man Ray - cult photographer of the twentieth century
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Man Ray(1890-1976) - French and American artist, photographer and film director, whose work had a huge influence on the avant-garde art of the entire 20th century: from Dada and surrealism to abstract and commercial photography.

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From October 30 to January 19 at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. For the first time in Russia there is a retrospective exhibition of Pushkin, “Man Ray. Portraits". It presents more than 100 photographs taken by the maestro over 60 years, from 1916 to 1976. © Emmanuel Radnitsky, this is actually the name of Man Ray, born on August 27, 1890 in Philadelphia, where his family had recently emigrated from the Kovno province of the Russian Empire. Seven years later the family moved to Brooklyn, New York. Four more years later, in 1912, due to frequent anti-Semitic attacks, she was forced to change her last name to Ray. When the young man turned 22, he took the name Man - transforming his real name - Emmanuel, Manni. Soon, the name Man Ray began to sound like a single, united name. It was this name that was destined to become famous.

Man Ray showed a keen interest in painting from an early age. Therefore, in 1908, after graduating from school, he decided to become an artist. The classic's early works differ in form and content. The young artist, in search of himself, tries various styles and directions, including cubism, futurism, and abstraction. He was the first among the masters to use a paint sprayer, the so-called airbrush, in painting. All his work is imbued with avant-gardeism, which is so inherent in these times. In 1915, he met the artist Marcel Duchamp, one of the leaders of Dadaism, thanks to whom he actively immersed himself in avant-garde art: he published the New York Dada magazine and created the Anonymous Society, an American organization of avant-garde art.

2. Portrait d’Alfred Stieglitz, 1913

3. Invention, 1916

4. The Rope Dancer Accompanies Herself with Her Shadows, 1916.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York

By transferring his artistic vision to film, Man Ray discovered a different side of photography, filling it with secrets, hints and halftones. He was not afraid to experiment, which is why such techniques as radiography and solarization appeared. With radiography, an image is obtained by directly exposing objects to photosensitive paper - the objects appear deformed and refracted, and the solarization effect was obtained by repeated exposure of the negative - objects, faces and bodies acquire mystical shapes.

In the 1930s, Man Ray began actively working for fashion magazines - Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, Vu and Vanity Fair. He was invited to Harper’s Bazaar by the magazine’s legendary art director Alexey Brodovitch, whose arrival radically changed first the appearance of Bazaar, and then the appearance of the entire American glossy. To transform the magazine, Brodovich involved the most avant-garde artists who had common friends with Man Ray - Dali, Chagall, Raoul Dufy, Miro, Cocteau and many others, but only Man Ray was the first and for a long time the only surreal photographer who mixed different genres of art. Man Ray is the author of the most famous photograph of Coco Chanel.

Man Ray's most famous work is considered "Ingres' Violin", which became an iconic image of the twentieth century.
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The well-known Kiki de Montparnasse, the muse of all the famous artists of Paris, posed for this photo. Man Ray’s work is something of a photographic pun, an “untranslatable play on words,” or rather images.

"Ingres' violin" is a literal translation of the French idiom violon d'Ingres(literally: this is his “strong point”, his weakness, his favorite pastime). This expression owes its origin to the famous French artist Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867), who played the violin well. Since then, the French began to call every artistic hobby by his name.

Man Ray (English Man Ray, birth name - Emmanuel Radnitsky; August 27, 1890, Philadelphia - November 18, 1976, Paris) - French and American artist, photographer and film director. One of the most important representatives of surrealist photography and New Vision photography.

The eldest son of Jewish emigrants (Meilakh Rudzitsky and Manya Luria) from the Kovno province. In 1897, the family moved to New York, and in 1912, due to constant anti-Semitic attacks, they changed their last name to Ray. From 1908 to 1912, Man Ray studied art in New York. Man Ray became interested in the photography of Alfred Stieglitz. Thanks to Stieglitz, Ray became acquainted with European avant-garde art. The artist's first personal exhibition took place in New York (1915). In 1918, he began to seriously engage in photography and cinema, experimenting with various technologies (photogram (rayography), solarization, etc.). Together with M. Duchamp and Francis Picabia, Man Ray founded the New York branch of Dadaism and published the first and only issue of the magazine “Dada in New York” (1920). In 1921 he moved to Paris. He is also credited a whole series famous and striking Dadaist objects and installations, created both independently and in collaboration with other artists. So in 1923, he created his creation “Object for Destruction,” which was an ordinary metronome, on the pendulum of which a crop of a photograph of a woman’s eye was attached.

Together with Hans (Jean) Arp, Max Ernst, Masson, Miró and Picasso, he participated in a collective exhibition of the surrealists at the Pierre Gallery in Paris (1925). He made several avant-garde films (Starfish, based on a poem by R. Desnos, etc.), and also starred in famous movie Rene Clair "Intermission". He created a series of famous photographic portraits of Erik Satie, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau, a series of nudes for which the young surrealist artist and at the same time Man Ray’s friend, Meret Oppenheim, posed (1934). Together with his assistant Berenice Abbott, he discovered a photograph of Eugene Atget, introducing him to the attention of the surrealists and the wider public.

In 1940-1951 he again lived in the USA, teaching painting and photography. In 1946, he married Juliette Brauner, with whom he lived for six years. Together with Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning, they played a double wedding - the couples were each other's witnesses. In 1951 he returned to Paris and lived there until his death. In 1963, he was accepted into the avant-garde gaming community “College of Pataphysics,” created in memory of Alfred Jarry. Buried in Montparnasse Cemetery. Man Ray's wife Juliette founded the Man Ray Foundation, which owns a large collection of his works and copyrights. Man Ray's daughter Anna Ray is the author of a series of popular books about her father and his famous friends, in particular a lavishly illustrated book about Erik Satie.

In 1999, he was recognized by Art News magazine as one of the 25 most influential artists of the 20th century.

Man Ray is one of the characters in the film Midnight in Paris (2011).

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Man of the era, classic of world photography, great artist and creator. This is exactly how one can characterize the eldest son of Jewish emigrants - Mani Luria and Meilakh Radnitsky. He was born on August 27, 1890 in Philadelphia, where his family had recently emigrated from the Kovno province of the Russian Empire. They called him Emmanuel. Emmanuel Radnitsky. But this name was not destined to become famous. Seven years later the family moved to Brooklyn, New York. Four more years later, in 1912, due to frequent anti-Semitic attacks, she was forced to change her last name to Ray. Looking ahead, when the young man turned 22, he took the name Man - thus transforming his real name - Emmanuel, Manni. Soon, the name Man Ray began to sound like a single, united name.

Man Ray: masculine, noun.

There will always be people who look only at the technique of execution - their main question is “how”
while others, who are more inquisitive, are interested in the “why.”
For me personally, an inspiring idea has always meant more than other information. Man Ray

Man Ray showed a keen interest in painting from an early age. Therefore, in 1908, after graduating from school, he decided to become an artist. The classic's early works differ in form and content. The young artist, in search of himself, tries various styles and directions, including cubism, futurism, and abstraction. He was the first among the masters to use a paint sprayer, the so-called airbrush, in painting. All his work is imbued with avant-gardeism, which is so inherent in these times. The work of Alfred Stieglitz, then one of the most influential artists, had a great influence on the young man.

In 1915, the artist’s first personal exhibition was held in New York, which, however, did not bring him much popularity or commercial achievements. Around this time, Man Ray acquired a camera, mainly to photograph his creations. In the future, it was his photographic works that would bring him worldwide popularity. Now, under the influence of his associates Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabio, Man Ray plunges headlong into the new Dadaist movement.

In 1920, Man Ray became a co-author of the avant-garde review “New York Dada”, dreaming of making it a periodical. However, the dream was not destined to come true for a number of financial and organizational reasons. Displeased with this turn of events, the artist moves to Paris.
After moving, he successfully participates in various Dada exhibitions, maintains close relationships with many representatives of the European avant-garde, achieves recognition and respect in the field of Dada and surrealism, and his range of interests expands. Among them you can see paintings, Dada objects, and collages. Man Ray's most famous Dada object is the work "The Gift", which is an iron with fourteen copper nails glued to the sole. It’s hard to imagine, but being so popular and well-known, the author’s works do not enjoy commercial success.

This is where his experiments in photography come into play. It turned out that photography can give the author much-needed financial independence. He photographed exhibitions and openings, visitors and the work of artists, his friends and their loved ones. Starting small, Man Ray quickly gained momentum in this field and soon became one of the most sought-after and expensive photographers in Paris. Increasingly, nude images appear in his works, and this will forever remain one of his favorite subjects, both in painting and photography. At the same time, until the end of his days, Man Ray treated photography as a lower form of art.

In 1922, Man Ray discovered a method for creating photographs of images without using a camera. It happened by accident. Among the already exposed sheets, somehow there was one blank, unexposed one. When foreign objects fell on the still wet sheet and the light turned on, the outlines of these objects were displayed on the sheet. He called them nothing else - “reiographs”, and put deep meanings into these paintings that were understandable only to a few.

Another important discovery of the photographer was the effect of solarization, repeated exposure of the negative. The photographs turned out mysterious and the images unique.
A significant event in Man Ray's life was his meeting with famous singer and model Kiki de Montparnasse. She was so popular and influential that, having become a model and also the author’s mistress, she brought him considerable fame and respect in the eyes of Parisians.
A collage image of Kiki under the intriguing title “Ingres’s Violin” was published in 1924, and very quickly gained popularity throughout the world.
But don’t think that he only photographed Kiki. Among his models were ordinary people, and representatives of the Parisian elite.

In 1929, Man Ray got a young and pretty assistant, Lee Miller. Their cooperation and warm romantic relationship lasted three years, and were quite fruitful for both. Rumor has it that some of Man Ray's works from the early 1930s were made by her. But in 1932, the girl chose to separate, developing her own career, and left for New York. Man Ray was very opposed to this, but soon found himself a new assistant, Berenice Abbott. Together with her, Man Ray discovered the talent of the young French photographer Eugene Atget to the general public.

To Man Ray’s deep regret, due to the escalating military situation, in 1940 he had to return to the United States of America, leaving everything that was most precious to him in Paris - home, work, friends, new young love Edie Fidelin and almost all of his creations.

A big shock for him was the news that in America he was known only as a great photographer. Disappointed by this, Man Ray renounces picking up a camera, and all subsequent years he stubbornly paints, creates sculptures and teaches painting. Of course, all this brings practically no income. He lives thanks to the capital collected in France. Man Ray’s entire attitude towards photography fits into the phrase he once threw out: “To create is a divine destiny, to copy is human.”

The author married the dancer and fashion model Juliette Brauner in 1946. Soon they had a little daughter, Anna. And as soon as the family had the opportunity, namely in 1951, they returned to Paris. There he stubbornly continues to boycott any photographic activity, does not take part in photo exhibitions, and is engaged in painting and sculpture. But even despite this, his reputation as a photographer is still growing.

A new stage in the importance of photography in Man Ray's life begins in 1961, when he received gold medal at the Venice Photobiennale. Soon, the author's personal exhibition takes place in Paris, and in 1966 - in Los Angeles. Now Man Ray exhibitions are regularly held around the world. They are organized by the Man Ray Foundation, which was established by his wife after his death. The Foundation owns the copyright to most of his works.

Man Ray, real name Emmanuel Radnitzky, is an American artist, photographer and film director. He invented the “solarization” technique and was the first to experiment with glass and negatives.

Born August 27 1890 1908 By 1912

Start of a career

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Man Ray, real name Emmanuel Radnitzky, is an American artist, photographer and filmmaker. He invented the “solarization” technique and was the first to experiment with glass and negatives.

Born August 27 1890 years in Philadelphia in a Jewish family of emigrants from Russia. A few years later, his family moved to New York. Here Ray studied art during the 1908 By 1912 year: he graduated from the National Academy of Drawing in New York, and then attended drawing and watercolor classes at the Ferrer Center. He often went to galleries contemporary art, experimented a lot, tried himself in abstraction, cubism and futurism.

Start of a career

Ray first began experimenting with photography after 1910 year. He photographs relatives, friends, and gallery visitors looking at his own paintings. The artist was forced to take up photography professionally by necessity. At first his work was not in demand, and Ray begins to offer photography services to his friends and artists. The circle of his clients begins to expand every month.

IN 1924 year one of the most famous works Man Ray – collage “Ingres’ Violin” (Le Violin d’Ingres). The photographer loved and knew how to work with nudes. He photographed ordinary models and celebrities of Parisian high society.

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IN 1922 Man Ray conducted an experiment: he placed large glass negatives on a sheet of photographic paper, illuminated by a red lamp. Turns the lamp on briefly, then turns it off. And develops the photographs. All objects in the photograph are deformed by the glass touching the paper. And what was exposed to the light stood out in relief against a black background.

Solarization is another interesting innovation of the photographer. This is the result of repeated exposure to the negative. At the same time, ordinary objects, faces, and body parts turned into phantasmagoric and mysterious images.

In the thirties, Ray did a lot of photography, creating portraits and surreal clothing designs that were published in the pages of Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, Vu and Vanity Fair. IN 1940 Man Ray returned to the United States, where he was known only as a photographer.

IN 1951 year, Man Ray and his wife Juliette Brauner returned to Paris, where he continued his studies in painting and sculpture. To 1960 Man Ray did not exhibit his work in the 1980s. But after in 1961 year he received a gold medal at the Venice Photobiennale, Ray’s exhibition opened in Paris, and in 1966 year - a retrospective exhibition in Los Angeles.

Man Ray died in 1976 year in his studio in Paris at 86 years old.

The most famous works:

1931 Solarisation

1936 Untitled

1945 Juliet & Margaret Nieman