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Man Ray initially rose to artistic prominence as a painter and sculptor in the social groups of the New York Dada school during the second decade of the twentieth century. Photography was an essential tool for the artistic avant-garde in the United States at this time, and Man Ray took up the medium with influences as diverse as Alfred Stieglitz and Marcel Duchamp. Born in Philadelphia as Emmanuel Rudnitsky, Man Ray lived in Paris for most of the 1920s and 1930s and participated in the growing surrealist movement there while he undertook a wide variety of photographic projects. His themes ranged from object still-lifes, portraits, and nude studies to fashion, solarized printing, and his own brand of photograms (contact printing of objects directly on photographic paper), which he called “Rayographs...” - Rachael Arauz, independent curator and art historian Text excerpted from A Capital Collection: Masterworks from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, which is available for purchase in the Corcoran Shop. :: Click here to purchase this catalog online :: View more Photography and Media Arts
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