History of Art - Photography -Man Ray

History of Photography


Abbott Berenice		Model Lisette
Adams Ansel		Outerbridge Paul
Brandt Bill		Rodchenko Alexander
Brassai		Sexton John
Bravo Manuel		Sherman Cindy
Callahan Harry		Skrebneski Victor
Doisneau		Smith Rodney
Kertesz Andre		Sommer Frederick
Koudelka Josef		Weegee
Laughlin Clarence		Weston Edward
Man Ray		White Minor
Mapplethorpe Robert

Man Ray

(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.