Man Ray: Genius of Light

Man Ray: Genius of Light

Edited with text by Robert Rocca, Pierre-Yves Butzbach. Text by Serge Sanchez, Sylvie Gonzalez, Laurence Benaïm, Marie-Pierre Ribère, Jean-Michel Bouhours.

A panorama of Man Ray's protean artistic output spanning film, assemblage, drawing and much more.

Emmanuel Radnitzky, better known as Man Ray (1890-1976), occupies a prominent place in 20th-century art. Living at the heart of the Parisian artistic milieu, he participated in the innovative experiments of the Dadaists and Surrealists, met with painters, poets and intellectuals, and ultimately rose to fame for his portraiture. He developed a career as a fashion photographer, notably working with designers Paul Poiret and Elsa Schiaparelli. A tireless experimenter, he rediscovered the technique of "photograms"-which Tristan Tzara named "rayographs"-and developed "solarization" with Lee Miller in 1929.

Man Ray is renowned for having revolutionized the art of photography, but...

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