(b Philadelphia, PA, 25 Aug 1890; d
Paris, 18 Nov 1976).
American photographer and painter. He was brought up in New York, and he
adopted the pseudonym Man Ray as early as 1909. He was one of the leading
spirits of DADA and SURREALISM and the only American artist to play a
prominent role in the launching of those two influential movements.
Throughout the 1910s he was involved with avant-garde activities that
prefigured the Dada movement. After attending drawing classes supervised
by Robert Henri and George Bellows at the Francisco Ferrer Social Center,
or Modern School, he lived for a time in the art colony of Ridgefield, NJ,
where he designed, illustrated and produced several small press pamphlets,
such as the Ridgefield Gazook, published in 1915, and A Book of
Diverse Writings.
Sculpture and
Clothesline
Shipwreck on Malibu
Beach
Pony Express Museum,
Arcadia, CA
Monument to Niépce
1937
Dolores del Rio
Self-Portrait in
Graham Hollywood Car
1941
Broken Chair with Stump and Ballet Shoes
Juliet with Vines
1942
Fly and Landscape
Le monde (The World): From the Portfolio "Electricité"
Breeze (Le Souffle)
from Electricité
1931
Mathematical Object
Bonne Année (Happy
New Year)
Still life for Nusch
1939
La Ville: From the
Portfolio Electricité
Eiffel Tower at Night
Dead Leaf
Optical Exercise I
Ruth, Roses, and
Revolvers
Henry Miller and
Margaret Neiman
1942
Enough Rope
1944
Meret Oppenheim
Georges Braque
Self-Portrait in
Hollywood Studio
1944
Self-Portrait
Erotique
voilee
Juliet with Crocheted
Headdress
1945
Juliet in Turban
Juliet in Mud Mask
Juliet Dancing
Untitled Rayograph (Airplane)
Masks
1946
Hibiscus Blossom
1946
Self-Portrait with
Beret
1946
Juliet in a Blonde
Wig
1950
Untitled (nude)
Gift
1958
Indestructible Object
Indestructible Object (or Object to Be Destroyed)
1964
Butterflies
Le Beau Temps
Promenade
1915
The Rope Dancer Accompanies Herself with Her Shadows
1916
