"Man Ray" is one of seven new titles being published this spring in Thames & Hudsons acclaimed "Photofile" series. Each book brings together the best work of the worlds greatest photographers in an attractive format and at an easily affordable price. Handsome and collectable, the books are printed to the highest standards. Each one contains some ...
Man Ray (1890-1976) is indisputably one of the most original artists of the 20th century. His revolutionary nude studies, fashion work, and portraits opened a new chapter in the history of photography. Born under the name of Emmanuel Radnitzky in Philadelphia, he began his artistic career in New York. In 1921 he moved to Paris, where he was ...
Originally published in 1963, these are the memoirs of photographer, painter, and filmmaker Emanuel Radnitsky, a.k.a. Man Ray, who played a central role in the Dada and Surrealist movements that developed in Paris in the first half of the 20th century.
This text explores the photographic career of Man Ray whose fertile artistic impulse has made him equally celebrated as a painter, sculptor, writer and film-maker. Taking up photography in 1915 for the purpose of reproducing his paintings, he earned money doing the same for others when he went to live and work in Paris in 1921. This led to a ...
This autobiography of Man Ray, photographer, painter and maker of objects and films, follows his life from his birth in Philadelphia in 1890 to his death in Paris in 1976. He knew the world of Greenwich Village in the avant-garde era following the 1913 Armory Show; Paris in the 1920s and 1930s, where he played a key role in the Dada and Surrealist ...
Recognized as the most original photographer of the 20th century, Man Ray delighted the avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s with daring, creative experimentation. He was the first Surrealist photographer, a gifted rebel with an incisive eye and a passion for freedom and pleasure. This outstanding monograph sheds new light on Man Ray's photographic ...
Published to coincide with a major touring exhibition organized by the National Museum of American Art, the book contains never-before-seen and seldom-shown works as well as many popular ones. A new afterword by Juliet Man Ray is included. 205 duotone and 35 color illustrations.
Man Ray documents the portrait and fashion photographs of this artist who excelled at capturing the body in a truly original style. Man Ray (Philadelphia 1890 Paris 1976), who started his career as a painter, was perhaps the first artist to recognise the potential of photography as more than a way of reproducing reality. He was a leading exponent ...
A dynamic selection of work from the Man Ray Trust, including color reproductions of his early paintings and little-known objets d'art, photographs including portraits of Picasso and Cocteau, and many humorous self-portraits.
60 masterful works include portraits of Jean Cocteau, Salvador Dali, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Pablo Picasso, other luminaries. Introduction and captions.
As I recall discovering this book of photographs, I remember the sense of beauty and mystery that remains undiminished almost seventy years after its original publication. On a formal plane, one can easily understand how Man Ray manipulated the optics of the camera, juxtaposing near and far, object against object, space against object, and tactile ...
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