" To know Man Ray is to know the modern area. He was the epitome of the "avant-garde" spirit, the experimenter "par excellence".

"I do not photograph nature, I photograph my fantasy" Man Ray proclaimed, and he found in the camera's eye and in light's magical chemistry the mechanisms for dreaming. Schooled as a painter and designer in New York, Man Ray turned to photography after discovering the 291 Gallery and its charismatic founder, Alfred Stieglitz. As a young expatriate in Paris during the twenties and thirties, Man Ray embraced surrealism and dadaism, creeds that emphasized chance effects, disjunction, and surprise. Tireless experimentation with technique led him to employ solarization, grain enlargement, mixed media, and cameraless prints (photograms)-which he called "Rayographs"-made by placing objects directly on photographic paper and exposing them to the light. These successful manipulations, for which he was dubbed "the poet of the darkroom" by fellow surrealist Jean Cocteau, were a major contribution to twentieth-century photography. Man Ray was no less adept at commercial and portrait photography, and he earned a good living both in Paris and later in Hollywood. His portraits of Joyce, Eliot, Matisse, Artaud, Hemingway, and Brancusi, among others, testify to his compelling insight. Renowned for his exotic wit and elegince, Man Ray was one of the most popular figures of his time and his work continues to hold wide appeal.

Taal Engels/ Duits/ Frans

95 pagina's. Boek in uitstekende staat. Linnen band met stofomslag.
Afm.: 21 x 21 cm
ISBN 3 89508 609 6
Könemann  1997

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