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The Museum of Avant-garde

Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky)

USA (1890—1976)
Born in Philadelphia but grown up in New York Man Ray artistic vision was influenced by Robert Henri, Max Weber and Adolf Wolff. He opened his studio in Jersey in 1913 painting in Cubist style and became close friend with Alfred Stieglitz, who owned the 291 Gallery and introduced him to photography. In 1915 he met Marcel Duchamp, with whom he also started a long friendship and collaboration in promoting Dada movement in US. In 1921 he moved to Paris where he met James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau among others. He hired Lee Miller who became his assistant, his muse and his lover. They discovered the solarization process and invented the shadowphotograph technique. He collaborated with Ferdinand Léger and Duchamp and directed avant-garde short films and two books with Paul Éluard. With the start of WWII he went back to US in Pasadena where he stayed until 1951, before returning to Paris and spend his last years in Montparnasse. He published his Self Portrait in 1963 and continued to work in painting and photography, object collage till his death in 1976.

Nude

Original photography / Solarized gelatin silver print / 18.9 x 24 cm / 1936 (1995) / © 2020 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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Rayograph / Original photography / Gelatin silver print / 22.4 x 29.5 cm / 1922 (1978) / © 2020 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Le grand jeu

Magazine / 18 x 24.8 cm / Paris, 1928-1930 (1977)

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Fashion photo, partial solarization

Heliogravure / 18.4 x 25.5 cm / 1935 (1982) / © 2020 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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Heliogravure / 18.3 x 24.9 cm / 1926 (1982) / © 2020 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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Rayograph / Original photography / Gelatin silver print / 21.8 x 28.9 cm / 1921 (1978) / © 2020 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Juliet

Original photography / Gelatin silver print / 20.4 x 26.4 cm / 1945 (1991) / © 2020 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Yves Tanguy

Original photography / Gelatin silver print / 18.4 x 24 cm / 1936 (1995) / © 2020 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Foto-auge

76 Fotos der Zeit / Photographic book with letterpress cover by El Lissitzky / Heliogravure / 20.6 x 29.2 cm / Stuttgart, 1929 (1973) / © 2020 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Rayograph with a ball of wool

Heliogravure / 19.4 x 24.9 cm / 1937 (1982) / © 2020 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

La photographie n'est pas l’art

12 Photomechanical prints / 25.5 x 16 cm / Paris, 1937 (2009)

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Dieu nous aide et fait pousser le caca / Magazine / Letterpress / 32.6 x 49.2 cm / Paris, 1924 (1993) / © Francis Picabia c/o Sabam, 2020

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Marie

Journal bimensuel pour la belle jeunesse / Bi-monthly journal / 24.2 x 32.3 cm / Bruxelles, 1926-1927 (1993)

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Marcel Duchamp

Original photography / Gelatin silver print / 17.7 x 24.3 cm / 1916 (1991) / © 2020 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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Rayograph / Original photography / Gelatin silver print / 22.6 x 30.1 cm / 1923 (1980) / © 2020 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Tears (Larmes)

Original photography / Gelatin silver print / 26.7 x 19.6 cm / 1930 (1991) / © 2020 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

The studio on 8th street, New York

Heliogravure / 19.6 x 24.7 cm / 1918 (1982) / © 2020 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Illustration for the novel Aurelien by Louis Aragon

Heliogravure / 19.2 x 25 cm / 1956 (1982) / © 2020 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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Ce numéro est entouré d'une dentelle rose / Magazine / Letterpress / 32.6 x 49.6 cm / Paris, 1920 (1993) / © Francis Picabia c/o Sabam, 2020

Il reale assoluto

Illustrated book / 24 original lithographs / 22.2 x 32.4 cm / Milan, 1964

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Rayograph / Heliogravure / 19 x 24.1 cm / 1927 (1982) / © 2020 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Arts et métiers graphiques 16

Photographie / Magazine / 24 x 30.9 cm / Paris, 1930 (1980) / © 1930, Arts et Métiers Graphiques Paris

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Paul Chadourne, Tristan Tzara, Philippe Soupault, Serge Charchoune, Paul Éluard, Jacques Rigaut, Mic Soupault, Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes

Original photography / Gelatin silver print / 24.4 x 17.8 cm / 1922 (1991) / © 2020 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Joan Miró

Heliogravure / 19.6 x 25 cm / 1930 (1982) / © 2020 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Rongwrong

Journal / Letterpress with photomechanical metal relief images / 20.4 x 27.8 cm / New Brunswick, 1917 (2017)

Portrait of Nusch Eluard

Original photography / Gelatin silver print / 38.6 x 28.4 cm / 1935 (2007) / © 2020 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Littérature

Magazine / Letterpress / 18.2 x 23.6 cm / Paris, 1919-1922 (1993) / © 2020 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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Erotique voilée

Meret Opppenheim / Original photography / Gelatin silver print / 27.6 x 18.9 cm / 1933 (1991) / © 2020 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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Rayograph / Original photography / Gelatin silver print / 22.6 x 30.1 cm / 1921 (1980) / © 2020 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Self-portrait

Original photography / Gelatin silver print / 17.9 x 23.5 cm / 1932 (1991) / © 2020 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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Black and white / Magazine / Letterpress / 28 x 37.7 cm / Paris, 1924 (1993) / © Francis Picabia c/o Sabam, 2020

Solarized portrait of Georges Braque

Heliogravure / 16.5 x 24.6 cm / 1930 (1982) / © 2020 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Illustration for the novel Aurelien by Louis Aragon

Heliogravure / 14.7 x 24.9 cm / 1956 (1982) / © 2020 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Ingres's violin (Le violon d’Ingres)

Original photography / Gelatin silver print / 20.1 x 27.1 cm / 1924 (1991) / © 2020 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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L'Étoile au front / Magazine / Letterpress / 27.7 x 37.7 cm / Paris, 1924 (1993) / © Francis Picabia c/o Sabam, 2020

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The ridgefield gazook

Magazine / 12 x 19 cm / Ridgefield, 1915 (1970)

Juliet

Original photography / Gelatin silver print / 18.4 x 27.3 cm / 1945 (1991) / © 2020 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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Rayograph / Original photography / Gelatin silver print / 24.1 x 29.7 cm / 1923 (1978) / © 2020 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Palais de quatre heures

Original photography / Gelatin silver print / 20.4 x 26.4 cm / 1932 (1991) / © 2020 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Predominance of matter over mind

Heliogravure / 25.8 x 20.6 cm / 1929 (1982) / © 2020 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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Rayograph / Heliogravure / 19 x 24.5 cm / 1933 (1982) / © 2020 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Cover design for the album Photographs 1920-1934

Heliogravure / 20.2 x 26.5 cm / 1934 (1982) / © 2020 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Le Surréalisme au service de la révolution

Journal / Letterpress / 20 x 28.5 cm / Paris, 1930-1933 (2002)

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The egg and the shell (L´œuf et le coquillage)

Original photography / Gelatin silver print / 27.2 x 19.3 cm / 1931 (1991) / © 2020 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris