The life and photographic work.
Man ray was an artist unconstrained by rules who considered the medium in which he worked a mere convenience in the service of his ideas. Not only did he succeed in stretching the boundaries of what we consider photography, but he also challenged our notions of beauty to an extent that still informs out outlook today.
Man Ray became one of the most inventive practitioners of photography in the twentieth century.
Man Ray actually Rudzitsky Emmanuel (born August 27, 1890 in Philadelphia, died. October 18, 1976 in Paris) was an American photographer and director. His work is considered to Dadaism and Surrealism.
His first significant photographs made in 1918, living in Philadelphia. Even then, he painted and created avant-garde films.Living in New York, with his friend Marcel Duchamp, created the American mainstream Dadaism, which began in Europe as a radical rejection of traditional art. He co-founded a group of artists known as the Others.After several unsuccessful attempts, particularly after the publication of one issue of New York Dada in 1920, Man Ray stated, "Dadaism can not live in New York because the whole New York is dada, " and in 1921 to live and came to France to Paris. He settled in the Montparnasse district. There he became a devotee of the French model Alice Prin (Kiki), often called "Kiki of Montparnasse, " which posed the then-known painters. Later, the same has become his favorite subject to photograph was a singer and cabaret.
Over the next 20 years, living in Montparnasse, Man Ray revolutionized the art of photography, and great artists such as James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau's posing for photos.
Along with Jean Arpem, Max Ernst, André Masson, Joan Miró and Pablo Picasso presented his work at the first exhibition of Surrealism at the Galerie Pierre in Paris in 1925. Meret Oppenheim in 1934, surrealist artist (known for his works, such as the fur-covered cup), posed for Man Ray which resulted in the creation of a series of photographs showing naked in a surrealist artist standing next to a printing press. Together with another photographer Lee Miller - his lover and collaborator - a photographic technique invented pseudosolaryzacji. Man Ray also created a technique he called the English rayographs.
Later in life, Man Ray for a few years he returned to the United States and settled in Los Angeles. However, as he used to say, it was his home in Montparnasse, and there he returned from the USA to spend the rest of his life. He died on October 18, 1976. He was buried in the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris.
His epitaph can be paraphrased as: "Not interested, but not indifferent. "
And that was enough about his life and achievements. In my opinion, Man Ray has been and will be the best photographer who inspired me to work on images such as nudes. The book is not so much which shows and describes his life and what he achieved but it also inspires and shows how developed and began to photograph.
