Man Ray
Birth
Emmanuel Radnitsky on August 27 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Man ray was a
pseudonym adopted by the artist.
In
1904 he entered school and had treaching in freehand drawing and industrial
draftsmanship.
"I came out with a complete 
technical
training in the fundamentals of architecture, engineering and lettering."
In 1914 he married Adon Lacriox and it was then that he began being known as
Man Ray.
Dadaism
and Duchamp
In 1913
Ray visited the Armory show where Marcel Duchamp’s Nude descending a staircase
caused such a stir. Man Ray, with Duchamp , whom he had made lifelong friends
with by 1916, formed the Society of Independent Artists. With Duchamp,
Katherine Dreier, Henry Hudson, and Andrew McLaren, Man Ray also established
the Société Anonyme, which he named, in 1920.After hearing of Duchamp’s readymades, Ray
joined up with the New York Dadaist movement and began producing his own
images of common three dimensional objects. Dadaism was formed in urich during
1915 and began as a protest against the state of affairs
which produced the great war. It
manifested itself through protests, publications and absurd and indifferent
art. It was essentially anti-art and was a reaction against the bourgeois
complacency of the time.
Man
Ray and Surrealism
In
1925, when Dadaism had all but died out and Surrealism had come to the
forefront, Man Ray embraced the ideals of the Surrealist ethic. He found new
ways of creating eroticism and female imagery. In particular, Ray used such
photographic techniques as solarization, dynamic cropping, over enlargement
and over development in order to create dreamlike images.
Death
Man Ray died in Paris on November 18
th 1976
