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  U B U W E B - Film & Video: Man Ray
The American photographer Man Ray was one of a group of avant-garde Paris filmmakers in the 20s that included Leger, Bunuel, Clair, Kirsanoff, and Cocteau.
Ray also does some very strange things involving people wearing nylon stockings over their heads (giving them an identical faceless look), throwing huge dice and practicing weird diving and swimming formations in the chateau's indoor pool.
Ray's pictures are fascinating viewing in this historical sense, but precisely because of their character as innovation in the abstract, they have lost the novelty and excitement they once held.
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  American Masters . Man Ray | PBS
Man Ray’s photographs of Kiki often use the outline of her body to represent other objects.
This interest in minimalism and abstraction carried over to Man Ray's experiments with what he termed "rayographs." A "rayograph" was made by placing a three-dimensional object or series of objects on top of a piece of photographic paper and exposing it to light.
One the great artists and agitators of his time, Man Ray will be remembered not simply for the fascinating and experimental works he left behind, but for the crucial role he played in encouraging the revolutionary in art.
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  Man Ray Biography (1890 - 1976)
Man Ray (a pseudonym adopted by the artist) was born on August 27, 1890, in Philadelphia, and moved to New York with his family seven years later.
Man Ray embraced the ideals of the Surrealists and admired the Marquis de Sade for his independence and willingness to explore the taboo despite the consequences.
Man Ray sought to create a Surrealist vision of the female form and began to utilize such photographic techniques as solarization, dynamic cropping, over enlargement and over development in an effort to create a dreamlike effect in his artwork.
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  Man Ray Photography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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She went to man ray photography her hotel room and a man followed her, took her to his room and raped her.
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 Man Ray - Films as director:, Other films:
Furthermore, of Ray's films, this one is the closest to being narrative, in that the sequences of images presented in the film seem, on the surface, to form a coherent whole.
Nonetheless, to overlook the impact of May Ray on the cinema is to ignore the influence of one of the early pioneers of cinematic art.
It was Man Ray, and many of his Dada and Surrealist contemporaries who first drew attention to a great many of the cinematic techniques widely used today.
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 ArtandCulture Artist: Man Ray   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Man Ray was born Emmanuel Radnitsky, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants who had settled in Philadelphia.
Man Ray is known for his experimentation in almost every medium.
The official Man Ray web site is loaded with links to just about all the information one could want, including Ray's biography, images of his works in various media, and tons of descriptive text.
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 Man Ray Biography | Authors and Artists for Young Adults
Man Ray was also among the earliest practitioners of a process known as assemblage.
Man Ray's works were collected and displayed in several exhibitions, including one in New York in 1945 titled "Objects of My Affection" that was comprised almost entirely of items the artist had found by chance.
Man Ray maintained, that no two things were the same in his work and that he was continually evolving.
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 Amazon.ca: Man Ray: Books: Aperture,Jed Perl,Man Ray   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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.
Man Ray was no less adept at commercial and portrait photography, and he earned a good living both in Paris and later in Hollywood.
Renowned 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.
www.amazon.ca /Man-Ray-Aperture/dp/product-description/0893817430   (970 words)

  
 Man Ray Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Man Ray (1890-1976), painter, photographer, and object maker, was the principal American artist in the Dada movement.
Man Ray was born in Philadelphia, Pa. on August 27, 1890.
Ray also exploited the photographic technique of solarization, a process of over-and underexposing negatives which resulted in prints with strange "bleached" effects.
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 Becoming Man Ray - Critical Essay Art in America - Find Articles
Man Ray scholar Francis M. Naumann, curator of the exhibition, traces the artist's attraction to modernism from 1907 to 1917, from ink drawings and watercolors to increasingly Cubistic landscapes and figures; he includes the evidence of magazines, pamphlets, personal photographs and other ephemera.
Naumann carefully follows Man Ray's progress by means of a thoughtful selection of works, and concludes with a look at the radical, airbrushed paintings that more explicitly prefigure the well-known photography to come.
Man Ray observes a dark, pressed-glass vase casually arranged with country flowers set against the pattern of what may be a decorative wallpaper design appropriated from Matisse's Harmony in Red (1908), a work he might well have seen at 291.
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 Zabriskie Gallery | Man Ray Man's Men: Portraits by Man Ray
Upon his arrival in Europe in 1921, Man Ray quickly integrated himself (partly by means of his friendship with Marcel Duchamp, partly by his general agreeability) into the Paris artistic community, and quickly became one of the most commercially successful portraitists on the scene.
To sit for Man Ray was an exclusive luxury, for his technical brilliance and his elite circle of friends.
Whatever social laurel was conferred upon the sitter, Man Ray certainly used his camera to build relationships and secure his station in the constellation of movers-and-shakers in Paris.
www.zabriskiegallery.com /exhibition.php?ex=11&page=10   (578 words)

  
 Man Ray biographical information
Man Ray was born Emmanuel Radnitsky in Philadelphia of Russian Jewish immigrant parents.
As a student, Man Ray was influenced by Alfred Stieglitz, whose gallery he often visited, and Robert Henri, who was his teacher.
Encouraged by Duchamp, May Ray moved to Paris in 1921, and with the exception of ten years in Hollywood during World War II, he spent the rest of his life there.
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 Man Ray
Man Ray (August 27, 1890—November 18, 1976) was an American Dada and Surrealist artist.
In 1911, the Radnitzky family changed their surname to Ray, a name selected by Man Ray's younger brother Sam, in reaction to the ethnic discrimination and anti-semitism prevalent at that time.
Man Ray also directed a number of influential avant-garde short films, such as Le Retour à la Raison (2 mins, 1923); Emak-Bakia (16 mins, 1926); L'Étoile de Mer (15 mins, 1928); and Les Mystéres du Château du Dé (20 mins, 1929).
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 Man Ray Bar in Paris   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Man Ray to me is a great place to go after dinner in a group.
I went to the Man Ray on the 28th of June 2003 and I thought it was fantastic.
Man Ray, while inspired from the BUDDHA BAR, except it's bigger and tacky, will never reach the style of his little older brother.
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 Man Ray
Man Ray was an artist who painted what he could not photograph and photographed what he could not paint.
Man Ray produced some of the most iconic photographs of the 20th century: eloquent portraits, dreamy solarised nudes, divine fashion photography and enigmatic images that continue to delight and astonish.
The exhibition emphasises Man Ray's techniques of framing, cropping, solarising and use of the photogram to present a new 'surreal' way of seeing, which continues to fascinate audiences today.
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 man ray
Man Ray made it a point to meet everyone who interested him (at that time, Paris was overflowing with artistic talent and fascinating people on every front) and he photographed nearly everyone who entered his modest studio.
Kiki posed for some of Man Ray's most famous pictures, including "Black and White" and "Glass Tears." But probably Man Ray's best-known subject was Lee Miller, an American who tracked down Ray just as be was about to leave Pairs for the south of France and became his femme fatale/model/lover for many tumultuous years.
Man Ray described California as "a beautiful prison" and the only work he was able to secure was doing a portrait for Ava Gardner.
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 Man Ray Biography - AOL Music
The Seattle band Man Ray were never given the opportunity to embrace the mainstream success their peers feasted on.
Praised by critics and fans for their fiery live performances, Man Ray combined loud, snarling guitars with the throbbing bass lines and despondent lyrics of goth rock.
Man Ray were signed to Mercury Records, and although their first album Casual Thinking received advance hype, the label offered it little promotion when it was released in 1997.
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 Man Ray on artnet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Man Ray was a conceptual artist the term was invented.
Man Ray was more than a lone performer on the art scene, he was a founder of the Societe Anonyme in 1920, the first American organization to promote modern art.
Man Ray’s work is found in the collections at the Eastman House Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, New York; the San Francisco MOMA, the International Center of Photography, New York; Musee Georg Pompideau, Paris; the Smithsonian Museum of Art, Washington, DC; and the Whitney Museum of Art, New York among others.
www.artnet.com /artist/628343/man-ray.html   (418 words)

  
 Olin | Anita Douthat | Man Ray   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
An American artist, Man Ray moved to Paris in 1921 and became one of many expatriots living abroad.
At a time when Paris was the center of the artistic scene, Man Ray relocated there and began to exhibit his modern art in selected exhibitions.
Man Ray often moved the objects during the process, finding that the resulting image was almost ghostly and translucent.
www2.kenyon.edu /ArtGallery/exhibitions/9899/douthat/manray.htm   (250 words)

  
 Man Ray | Biography
Born Emmanuel Radnitzky, Man Ray grew up in America but spent the greater part of his life as an migr in Paris.
Had apparently abandoned his family name and was now known as Man Ray, as it appears in the Marriage Register.
Man Ray photographs the couture section of the 'Exposition des Arts Dcoratifs'.
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 Becoming Man Ray - Critical Essay Art in America - Find Articles
Man Ray scholar Francis M. Naumann, curator of the exhibition, traces the artist's attraction to modernism from 1907 to 1917, from ink drawings and watercolors to increasingly Cubistic landscapes and figures; he includes the evidence of magazines, pamphlets, personal photographs and other ephemera.
Naumann carefully follows Man Ray's progress by means of a thoughtful selection of works, and concludes with a look at the radical, airbrushed paintings that more explicitly prefigure the well-known photography to come.
Man Ray observes a dark, pressed-glass vase casually arranged with country flowers set against the pattern of what may be a decorative wallpaper design appropriated from Matisse's Harmony in Red (1908), a work he might well have seen at 291.
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 Man Ray Online
Man Ray in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Man Ray at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
Man Ray copyright requests handled by the Artists Rights Society.
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 Man Ray - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Man Ray - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Ray, Man (1890-1976), American painter, photographer, and leading figure in the artistic avant-garde in Paris of the 1920s.
Oakton Community College - Ray Hartstein Skokie Campus
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 Man Ray
Man Ray (ne Emmaneul Radnitzky, 1890-1976) was born in Philadelphia and raised in New York City where he attended the Academy of Fine Arts.
While in school, Man Ray's style evolved from Cubism to Dadaism and finally to Surrealism.
In 1921, Man Ray left New York for Paris, where he remained the rest of his life, except for the World War II years.
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 Man Ray Exhibit Missing Sculptures
Photographs by the protean American artist Man Ray (1890-1976) played a pivotal role in translating early twentieth-century fascination with non-Western art into a modernist aesthetic and in disseminating this aesthetic to an international audience.
A groundbreaking exhibition is under development that explores how Man Ray's photographs contributed to the process by which African and Oceanic objects, formerly considered ethnographic artifacts, came to be perceived as art in the West.
In Object and Image, Man Ray's photographs will be juxtaposed with many of the actual objects appearing in the images.
www.tribalmagazine.com /manray.html   (180 words)

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