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Man Ray Biography
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Man Ray at The ICP, New York
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Man Ray at The Getty, Los Angeles
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Man Ray Trust Website
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About the Museum
Photography and its Double
at the International Center of Photography
Nov. 18, 1998 - January 24, 1998
-Exhibition drawn from artist's own archive.
-Only scheduled presentation outside of Europe.
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Innovator, inventor and image-maker, Man Ray was a pioneering artist at the forefront of twentieth-century culture. This unprecedented retrospective of the photographic works of Man Ray ( 1890-1976) is the first to be selected primarily from the artist's own photographic archive. Man Ray: Photography and Its Double, an exhibition of approximately two hundred and fifty photographs, is curated by the Centre Georges Pompidou, Musee national d'art moderne, where the archive is housed. The exhibition is organized in three sections, including: Man Ray's portraits of artists and celebrities, nudes and fashion photographs; his creative work employing techniques such as superimposition, solarization and photograms; and work that focuses on Man Ray's special contribution to Dada and Surrealism. The exhibition will be on view at the International Center of Photography Midtown, 1 133 Avenue of the Americas (at 43rd Street), New York City, from November 18, 1998 to January 24, 1999. This is the only scheduled presentation of the exhibition outside of Europe.
The works on view demonstrate Man Ray's development as a photographer and reveal his working process. For example, original contact prints of portraits made and crop-marked by Man Ray are exhibited together with the final versions of selected images. Other images in the exhibition situate Man Ray within the context of Parisian high society and the avant-garde in the 1 920s and 1 930s. Some of his most notable subjects were James Joyce, Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein, Salvador Dali and Ernest Hemingway.
This exhibition also highlights Man Ray's innovation and experimentation with photographic techniques. Man Ray is famous for his use of solarization, originally known as the Sabatier effect, a process which results in the partial inversion of the tonal values of a photograph. Furthermore, Man Ray is credited with developing the photogram, a photographic image made without a camera, described by the poet Jean Cocteau as "painting with light." Rayographs, as Man Ray called them, are produced by directly placing objects onto photographic paper and exposing them to light. Examples of solarization and Rayographs as well as superimposed images will be on view.
Man Ray: Photography and Its Double, curated by Alain Sayag and Emmanuelle de l'Ecotais of the Centre Georges Pompidou, Musee national d'art moderne, provides a thorough survey of Man Ray's photography, presenting the full range of his achievement as a commercial photographer and an innovative artist with a modern point of view. The exhibition is comprised of both vintage photographs and later prints made under Man Ray's supervision after the Second World War. The work of Man Ray has been exhibited worldwide in galleries and museums. His work continues to hold a central position in the history of photography and the history of modern art.
This exhibition was conceived and organized by the Centre Georges Pompidou, Musee national d'art moderne, Paris and was first presented at the Galeries nationales du Grand Palais from April 28 to June 29, 1998.
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