Download or read book Man Ray s Celebrity Portraits written by Man Ray and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 1995 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masterful collection of 60 works by a supreme artist with an unerring ability to capture his subject’s personality on film. Revealing portraits of Jean Cocteau, Salvador Dal�, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Pablo Picasso and many other luminaries. New English translations of Introduction and captions.
Download or read book Man Ray written by Man Ray and published by Schirmer Mosel. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Man Ray Portraits written by Man Ray and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Man Ray (18901976) was born Michael (Emmanuel) Radnitzky in Philadelphia, and began signing his name as Man Ray in 1912. He initially taught himself photography in order to reproduce his own works of art. From 1913 to 1916 Man Ray lived and worked at the artists colony in Ridgefield, New Jersey, where in 1915 he met the French artist Marcel Duchamp, with whom he tried to establish New York Dada. Man Rays friendship with Duchamp led to his moving to Paris in 1921. There, as a contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements, Man Ray was perfectly placed to make defining images of his contemporaries from the avant-garde. Among portraits from the early 1920s featured in this book are remarkable studies of Jean Cocteau, Peggy Guggenheim and Gertrude Stein. Also included are intimate images of Man Rays friends and lovers, among them Kiki de Montparnasse (Alice Prin), Lee Miller, who helped him discover the printing process of solarisation, and Ady Fidelin. Also reproduced in Man Ray Portraits are some of the artists less-well-known later images, taken in 1940s Hollywood, where he met and married his last muse, Juliet Browner. His photographs of the 1950s and 1960s include such stars as Leslie Caron and Catherine Deneuve. An essential reference guide to Man Rays life and work, this book includes an preface by Terence Pepper and an introduction by Marina Warner, as well as more than 200 beautifully reproduced images. A detailed, illustrated chronology sets Man Rays work in the context of his life.
Download or read book Man Ray Portraits written by Terence Pepper and published by National Portrait Gallery. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to accompany an exhibition held Feb. 7-May 27, 2013, at the National Portrait Gallery, London; June 22-Sept. 8, 2013, at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh; Oct. 28, 2013-January 19, 2014, at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow.
Download or read book Man Ray s Paris Portraits 1921 39 written by Timothy Baum and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “...Man Ray’s two decades of mutual love and admiration, between the two wars, with and within the dreams and realities of the Ville de Paris. Unlike such romantic tales, we have a vivid, visual record of all that its characters and great moments: Man Ray’s Paris portraits, hopefully brought back to life for you within these pages once again.” — author.
Download or read book Man Ray written by Terence Pepper and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael (Emmanuel) Radnitsky (1890-1976), né à Philadelphie, commence à signer Man Ray en 1912. Au départ, il apprend la photographie en autodidacte afin de reproduire ses propres oeuvres d’art. De 1913 à 1916, Man Ray vit et travaille dans la colonie d’artistes de Ridgefield, New Jersey, où il rencontre en 1915 l’artiste français Marcel Duchamp, avec qui il s’efforce de créer la branche américaine du mouvement Dada. Par amitié pour Duchamp, Man Ray part pour Paris en 1921. Acteur du dadaïsme et du surréalisme, il est idéalement placé pour réaliser des photos décisives de ses contemporains de l’avant-garde. Parmi les portraits du début des années 1920 repris dans cet ouvrage figurent de remarquables études de Jean Cocteau, Peggy Guggenheim et Gertrude Stein. Elles voisinent avec des images intimes des amies et maîtresses de Man Ray, dont Kiki de Montparnasse (Alice Prin), Lee Miller, qui l’a aidé à découvrir le procédé d’impression de la « solarisation », et Ady Fielden. Les Portraits de Man Ray présente également quelques photos moins connues de l’artiste, prises dans les années 1940 à Hollywood, où il a rencontré et épousé sa dernière muse, Juliet Browner. Ses photographies des années 1950 et 1960, enfin, comprennent des portraits de vedettes comme Leslie Caron et Catherine Deneuve. En plus d’une introduction de Terence Pepper et d’un essai de Marina Warner, cet ouvrage de référence incontournable sur la vie et l’oeuvre de Man Ray contient des témoignages de première main, recueillis auprès des modèles de l’artiste, ainsi que plus de 200 photographies impeccablement reproduites.
Download or read book Man Ray written by Arthur Lubow and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the elusive but celebrated Dada and Surrealist artist and photographer connecting his Jewish background to his life and art Man Ray (1890–1976), a founding father of Dada and a key player in French Surrealism, is one of the central artists of the twentieth century. He is also one of the most elusive. In this new biography, journalist and critic Arthur Lubow uses Man Ray’s Jewish background as one filter to understand his life and art. Man Ray began life as Emmanuel Radnitsky, the eldest of four children born in Philadelphia to a mother from Minsk and a father from Kiev. When he was seven the family moved to the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, where both parents worked as tailors. Defying his parents’ expectations that he earn a university degree, Man Ray instead pursued his vocation as an artist, embracing the modernist creed of photographer and avant-garde gallery owner Alfred Stieglitz. When at the age of thirty Man Ray relocated to Paris, he, unlike Stieglitz, made a clean break with his past.
Download or read book Man Ray in Paris written by Erin C. Garcia and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2011 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American artist Man Ray spend the most productive years of his career, during the 1920s and 1930s, in Paris.
Download or read book Man Ray written by Man Ray and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalogue from an exhibition of works by Man Ray which capture the extraordinary and sensual images which made him one of the 20th century's famous and original photographers. Known for his iconic images and haunting portraits of his many friends and colleagues.
Download or read book Man Ray written by Man Ray and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1989 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Photographs by Man Ray written by Man Ray and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book Man Ray written by Michael R. Taylor and published by Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A close look at Man Ray's interwar portraiture, as well as the friendships between the photographer and his subjects: the international avant garde in Paris Shortly after his arrival in Paris in July 1921, Man Ray (1890-1976)--the pseudonym of Emmanuel Radnitzky--embarked on a sustained campaign to document the city's international avant-garde in a series of remarkable portraits that established his reputation as one of the leading photographers of his era. Man Ray's subjects included cultural luminaries such as Berenice Abbott, André Breton, Jean Cocteau, Marcel Duchamp, Ernest Hemingway, Miriam Hopkins, Aldous Huxley, James Joyce, Lee Miller, Méret Oppenheim, Pablo Picasso, Alice Prin (Kiki de Montparnasse), Elsa Schiaparelli, Erik Satie, and Gertrude Stein. As this lavishly illustrated publication demonstrates, Man Ray's portraits went beyond recording the mere outward appearance of the person depicted and aimed instead to capture the essence of his sitters as creative individuals, as well as the collective nature and character of Les Années folles (the crazy years) of Paris between the two world wars, when the city became famous the world over as a powerful and evocative symbol of artistic freedom and daring experimentation.
Download or read book Man Ray written by Man Ray and published by Conran Octopus. This book was released on 1988 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Man Ray was no less adept at commercial and portrait photography, and he earned a good living at both in Paris and later in Hollywwod. His portraits of Joyce, Eliot, Matisse, Artaud, Hemingway and Brancusi, among others, testify to his compelling insight. Renowed for his exotic wit and elegance, Man Ray was one of the most popular figures of his time and his work continues to hold wide appeal."--BOOK COVER.
Download or read book Man Ray portraits written by Terence Pepper and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Man Ray written by Robert Rocca and published by Silvana Editoriale. This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Man Ray occupies a prominent place in the history of 20th-century art. A versatile artist, who lived mainly in Paris, he is best known as a photographer. Indeed, he was one of the first to use photography, not as a simple means of reproduction, but as a genuine creative medium, turning the technique into an art form. Some of his photographs, such as Le Violon d’Ingres (1924) and Noire et blanche (1926), have achieved iconic status.Born in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) on 27 August 1890, Emmanuel Radnitsky, known as Man Ray (as in a ray of light), actively participated in the intellectual and artistic circles of New York. He discovered the European avant-gardes and befriended Marcel Duchamp who opened the doors of Dadaism to him and welcomed him to Paris in July 1921.At the heart of Parisian artistic life, he participated in the innovative experiments of the Dadaists and Surrealists, met with painters, poets and intellectuals, and became famous for his portraits. He developed a career as a fashion photographer, notably for designers Paul Poiret and Elsa Schiaparelli. A tireless experimenter, he rediscovered the technique of “photograms” (abstract silhouettes of objects) that Tristan Tzara named “rayographs” and in 1929, with his new partner Lee Miller, developed the “solarization” technique. In 1940, after the fall of France, Man Ray left for the United States and met Juliet Browner, who became his wife and muse. He returned to Paris in 1951 and lived there until his death in 1976.Man Ray is renowned for having revolutionized the art of photography, but he was also a painter, draughtsman, assembler of objects, sculptor, writer and filmmaker. It is this protean artist that we seek to discover or re-discover, through a true panorama of his works, which will enable us to comprehend Man Ray’s creative process and the importance of his art. -- From publisher's website.
Download or read book Self portrait written by Man Ray and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Man Ray Women written by Man Ray and published by Damiani. This book was released on 2005 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Man Ray: Women~ISBN 88-89431-32-6 U.S. $49.00 / Hardcover, 8.5 x 11 in. / 152 pgs / 130 b&w. ~Item / March / Photography
