Man ray biography gallery online
Man ray biography gallery online
Man ray works.
Man Ray
Artist
born Philadelphia, PA 1890-died Paris, France 1976
- Also known as
- Emmanuel Radnitsky
- Emmanuel Radensky
- Emmanuel Radinski
- Emmanuel Rudnitsky
- Emmanuel Radnitzsky
- Man Ray
- Born
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- Died
- Paris, France
- Active in
- New York, New York, United States
- Biography
Born in Philadelphia, lived intermittently in the United States, but preferred Paris.
Innovative painter, photographer, filmmaker who has been described as a Dadaist-Surrealist.
Charles Sullivan, ed American Beauties: Women in Art and Literature (New York: Henry N. Abrams, Inc., in association with National Museum of American Art, 1993)
Artist Biography
To most, Man Ray was a mystery.
In part, this was the enigma posed by any expatriate who deliberately separates himself from home. In part, it was the confusion that resulted from the multifaceted activities of an artist who accomplished, with easy dexterity, so much