Man Ray was one of the leading avant-garde thinkers of his generation, but how did he develop his unique approach? A watercolor sketch made while the artist was still in his early twenties has ...

Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention, Jewish Museum, New York, NY (solo) Man Ray: African Art through the Modernist Lens, Phillips Collection, Washington, DC; University of Virginia Art Museum, ...

Introduction: Man Ray and His Shadows -- 1. The Radnitsky Clan -- 2. Alfred Stieglitz and the Avant-Garde -- 3. Adon -- 4. Charles Daniel -- 5. Marcel Duchamp -- 6. Tristan Tzara and Francis Picabia - ...

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This article first appeared in the Stars and Stripes Europe edition, Jan. 14, 1966. It is republished unedited in its original form. Man Ray sat chain-smoking cigarettes in a big Paris studio crammed ...

Paris, Sept. 22, 1965: Artist Man Ray — photographed in his Paris studio — stands before some of his works. To his right stands a print of “Orchestra,” one of the 10 pochoirs (stencils) from the ...

A close-up view of Man Ray's Le Violon d'Ingres © Man Ray 2015 Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY / ADAGP, Paris 2025 A trove of avant-garde art—including ...

In Paris in the 1930s, there were few artists as influential as Man Ray. A pioneer of Surrealist photography, the American expat's use of modernist techniques to create groundbreaking images ...