Man
Ray
by Guido Comis, Marco Franciolli
Hardcover from Skira
Published: 2011-09-20
ISBN: 8857209741
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An exciting monograph dedicated to an extraordinary figure and one
of last century's most famous and influential artists. Man Ray (1890-1976)
was a photographer, painter, and creator of objects, experimental films,
and images which were at times enigmatic. This catalog, which presents
more than 200 works and compares and contrasts images with biographical
details, is divided into three main sections: Man Ray's formative years
spent between New York and an artists' colony in Ridgefield, New Jersey;
the Paris period; and the period spent between Hollywood and Paris, France-the
city he ultimately chose to adopt as his home.
The publication describes the creation of some of his most famous pieces
and the motifs-very often of females-that inspired the works. Man Ray's
life was marked by a succession of love affairs with famous and intriguing
women, and this catalog dedicates several sections to this topic.
The book also deals with the themes permeating Man Ray's work throughout
the years, such as his passion for chess, the relationship between reality
and illusion, and experimental photography and film. Comparisons are also
made with the works of some of the most important artists of the twentieth
century, such as Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Constantin Brancusi, Jean
Arp, and Francis Picabia. |
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Photographs
by Man Ray: 105 Works, 1920-1934
by Man Ray
Paperback from Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486238423
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hoursRich selection of various techniques
include over and under exposure, shooting through fabric, superimposing
images, and zeroing in on tiny details. Photographs are divided into general
subjects, female figures (mainly nudes); women's faces (including Gertrude
Stein); celebrity portraits (Dali, Derain, Matisse, Picasso, and others);
and rayographs, cameraless compositions created by resting objects on unexposed
film. |
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Man
Ray / Lee Miller: Partners in Surrealism
by Phillip Prodger
Hardcover from Merrell Publishers
ISBN: 1858945577
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hoursBringing together unique and
rarely seen photographs, paintings, sculpture and drawings, this exquisite
book tells the story of the tumultuous relationship between the artists
Man Ray (1890 1976) and Lee Miller (1907 1977). From 1929 to 1932, the
two lived together in Paris, first as teacher and student, and later as
lovers. Historically, Miller has been described as Man Ray's muse, but
Partners in Surrealism reveals how their brief, mercurial love affair was
a key source of mutual and sustained inspiration, resulting in some of
the most powerful work of each artist's career. Featuring a candid and
poignant contribution from Antony Penrose, the son of Miller and the English
painter Roland Penrose, on the relationship between Man Ray and his parents
in later years, this is an extraordinary exploration of the love, lust
and desire that drove the art of the Surrealists. |
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Man
Ray (Taschen Icons)
by TASCHEN
Hardcover from Taschen
ISBN: 3836507986
This is a comprehensive overview of the life and work of the groundbreaking
artist Man Ray (1890-1976) who broke down the boundaries between photography
and graphic design with his innovative techniques.Man Ray is indisputably
one of the most original artists of the 20th century. His revolutionary
nude studies, fashion work, and portraits opened a new chapter in the history
of photography. Born under the name of Emmanuel Radnitzky in Philadelphia,
he began his artistic career in New York. In 1921 he moved to Paris, where
he was enthusiastically welcomed into Dadaist and Surrealist circles. Man
Ray experimented tirelessly with new photographic techniques, multiple
exposure, rayography, and solarization being some of his most famous. Erotic,
playful, and sometimes sinister, his compositions show unusual bodies and
objects: strange, striking images that transform our perceptions of reality.
This collection of famous, lesser known, and unknown works fully illustrates
Man Ray's singular visionary power.More bang for your buck! '...a fast-food,
high-energy fix on the topic at hand' - "The New York Times Book Review". |
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Man
Ray in Paris
by Erin C. Garcia
Hardcover from J. Paul Getty Museum
ISBN: 1606060600
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hoursParis after World War I was
teeming with Americans. Bon vivants seeking escape from prohibition mingled
with artists and intellectuals, all pursuing their dreams in the City of
Light. The American Modernist Man Ray (1890-1976) spent the 1920s and 1930s
in Paris, where experimental expression was flourishing. While he considered
himself to be primarily a painter and also worked in film, sculpture, and
collage, his best-known and most innovative medium was photography.
Man Ray arrived in Paris in 1921 full of creative energy. Inspired by
Marcel Duchamp's "readymades"--mundane objects that became works of art
in the gallery context--Man Ray spontaneously created an assemblage during
a party by combining carpet tacks and an iron, which he then photographed.
Soon afterward, he began to experiment with cameraless photography and
devised his Rayographs--abstract images produced by placing objects directly
on photographic paper and exposing it to light.
He eventually became an influential figure in the city's avant-garde
circles and began to make striking portraits of many of its luminaries,
including Pablo Picasso, James Joyce, Jean Cocteau, Joan Miró, and
Gertrude Stein. His work inspired other photographers and encouraged painters,
including the Surrealists René Magritte and Salvador Dalí,
to experiment with the medium.
Through its fascinating text and numerous photographs, this volume vividly
demonstrates why Man Ray is still considered to be one of the most inventive
and exciting artists of the twentieth century. |
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Man
Ray: American Artist
by Neil Baldwin
Paperback from Da Capo Press
ISBN: 030681014X
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hoursThe definitive biography of
one of the most influential surrealists and a quintessential modernist.
Figure-painter, sculptor, photographer, filmmaker, and collagist, Ray was
born Emmanuel Radnitsky in Brooklyn. This book traces his American upbringing
and his departure for Europe plus his work in painting, sculpture, photography,
and filmmaking. Although he wasn't successful in all media, Man Ray nonetheless
had his own style and vision. Baldwin's portrait was the first full-length
biography of Man Ray. This edition has a new intro by the author updating
the artist's story. |
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Man
Ray: Portraits. Hollywood Paris Hollywood 1921-1976
by Clement Cheroux
Hardcover from Schirmer/Mosel
ISBN: 3829605404
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When American-born Surrealist Man Ray died in 1976, he left behind
thousands of photo negatives, mostly portraits taken in his studio after
his arrival in Paris in 1921. The Centre Georges Pompidou, which has owned
them since the mid-1990s, has duly catalogued the collection of negatives
and is now in a position to bring out what is an encyclopedic publication
in the best sense of the term. It attests both to Man Ray s ability as
a portrait photographer and to the quality of his archive as a monument
to cultural history. The catalog features 500 portraits, each of which
is explained in a short commentary. Since Man Ray's clientele was made
up of members of Dadaist and Surrealist circles, of artists and painters,
of writers and US emigrants of the Lost Generation, of aristocrats, and
paragons of the worlds of fashion and theater, the book is at the same
time a marvelous Who's Who and an indispensable reference work for a broad
range of different historians and scholars of the 20th century. |
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Man
Ray Photographs
by Jean-Hubert Martin
Paperback from Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500274738
This text explores the photographic career of Man Ray whose fertile
artistic impulse has made him equally celebrated as a painter, sculptor,
writer and film-maker. Taking up photography in 1915 for the purpose of
reproducing his paintings, he earned money doing the same for others when
he went to live and work in Paris in 1921. This led to a career in photography
ranging from portraits of celebrated artists, musicians and writers such
as Andre breton, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie, Arnold Schoenberg, T.S. Elliot
and Gertrude Stein, to the pictures using light effects outside the camera
for which he is famous: cliche-verres, rayographs and solarizations. Alongside
many of Man-Ray's classic images, this collection presents a huge number
of less familiar photographs, including portraits of Virginia Woolf and
of Antonin Artaud and a large selection of erotic pictures. Most of these
are from the collection of Lucien Treillard, a personal friend who worked
with the artist over many years cataloguing and archiving his photographs. |
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Self
Portrait: Man Ray
by Man Ray
Paperback from Bulfinch
ISBN: 0821224743
In this remarkable autobiography, Man Ray - painter, photographer, sculptor,
film maker and writer - relates the story of his life, from his childhood
determination to be an artist and his technical drawing classes in a Brooklyn
high school, to the glamorous and heady days of Paris in the 1940s, when
any trip to the city 'was not complete until they had been "done" by Man
Ray's camera'. Friend to everyone who was anyone, Ray tells everything
he knows of artists, socialites and writers such as Matisse, Hemingway,
Picasso and Joyce, not to mention Lee Miller, Nancy Cunard, Alberto Giacometti,
Gertrude Stein, Dali, Max Ernst and many more, in this decadent, sensational
account of the early twentieth-century cultural world. |
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Man
Ray: Photography and Its Double
Hardcover from Gingko Press
ISBN: 3927258660
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Man Ray (1890-1976), was one of the co-founders of New York Dada. When
he arrived in Paris in the 1920s he was already friends with Duchamp and
many Parisian Surrealists, who welcomed him with great enthusiasm. He is
unquestionably recognized as the most original photographer of our century.
With his photographs, Rayographs, solarizations, and various experimentation
with Surrealist doctrines in the darkroom, his photographic contribution
to art and especially surrealism is matchless. Thanks to his famous portraits
of contemporaries - artists, writers and celebrities - he also became the
most notable chronicler of the inter-national Avant-garde movement of the
1920s and 1930s.
This remarkable monograph published to coincide with the historic exhibition
at the Centre Pompidou, is entirely dedicated to Man Ray's photographic
oeuvre. The Centre Pompidou is the recipient of the Man Ray archives -
some 13,000 negatives and 5,000 prints - which reveal for the very first
time never before published photographs (a great amount consisting of erotic
compositions).
One-third of these photographs have never been seen.
Not only the finished photos, but also the process - crops, background
manipulation and other methods. The book with its new images presents for
the very first time a true picture of the artist, and a vital addition
to the many publications about Man Ray that appeared throughout this century,
many of which are long out of print. This monograph is a must for Man Ray
experts, for those interested in photography, and a wonderful introduction
to students and others not yet sufficiently familiar with Man Ray's work. |
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Man
Ray: Photography and Its Double
by Emmanuelle De I'Ecotais (Editor), et al
(Hardcover)
Man
Ray's Paris Portraits : 1921-1939
by Timothy Baum, et al
(Hardcover - January 1991)
Man
Ray's Montparnasse
by Herbert R. Lottman
(Hardcover)
Man
Ray : 1890-1976
by Kate Ware, et al
What is so interesting about the artist Man Ray is how relevant his
multimedia works seem to us today. Man Ray, who was born in Brooklyn, New
York, and moved to Paris in 1921, was a photographer, filmmaker, painter,
and writer who quickly became one of the most celebrated figures associated
with the Surrealist movement. With more than 300 gorgeously reproduced
duotones of his photographs, collages, drawings, objects, and a variety
of graphic work, this is the quintessential book on the intriguing artist,
presenting a unique overview of his entire body of work. Most compelling
are his portraits of figures who embody the spirit of the artistic vanguard
of their generation: Andre Breton, Yves Tanguy, Jean Cocteau, Salvador
Dali, and Gertrude Stein, as well as his innovative fashion spreads
for
Vanity Fair, Vogue, and Harper's Bazaar. Amazon.com
Hardcover - 252 pages
TASCHEN America Llc; ISBN: 3822871850 |
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In
Focus: Man Ray
Paperback - 144 pages
J Paul Getty Museum Pubns; ISBN: 0892365110
Man
Ray
by Alexander Games, Patrick Bade
Artist, Filmmaker, Poet, Surrealist, Man Ray was an unusually versatile
artist, a trait not limited to his studio. As a lover, he was associated
with some of the most famous and talked about women of his day. Some artists
prefer to conceal their sexual partners, but Man Ray was the complete opposite.
His paintings and, especially, his photographs are the journal of his sexual
and emotional development traced her in this mini-biography. The Publisher
Hardcover - 118 pages (November )
Parkstone Press; ISBN: 1859954715
Photographs
by Man Ray : One Hundred Five Works, 1920-1934
by Man Ray
Synopsis
Still lifes, landscapes, nudes, women's faces, portraits, and rayographs
(photographs made without cameras) produced by Ray in the twenties and
early thirties are accompanied by the comments of his contemporaries.
(Paperback - January 1980)
Self
Portrait : Man Ray
by Man Ray, et al
(Paperback)
Man
Ray (TASCHEN Icons Series)
by Emmanuelle De L'Ecotais (Editor), Manfred Heiting (Editor)
(Paperback)
Man
Ray : Photographs, Paintings, Objects (Schirmer's Visual Library)
by Man Ray (Artist), Janus
(Paperback)
Man
Ray
by Emmanuelle De l'Ecotais and Katherine Wa
Hardcover from Taschen |
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