Man Ray
- By Emmanuelle De L’Ecotais/
Katherine Ware
- Edited by Ed. Manfred
Heiting
Paperback, 224pages, 24.9 ×
2.2 × 1.8cm
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| Man Ray was
an artist unconstrained by rules who considered the
medium in which he worked a mere convenience in the
service of his ideas. Not only did he succeed in
stretching the boundaries of what we consider
photography, but he also challenged our notions of
beauty to an extent that still informs our outlook
today. Though he initially picked up his camera to
photograph his paintings, Man ray became one of the moat
inventive practitioners of photography in the twentieth
century. By assembling a vocabulary of seldom-used
darkroom techniques he freed photography from its
reputation for recording the observable world and used
it to create images drawn from the imagination. Little
did he know that not much more than a decade after his
death, this body of work - which he suppressed in the
last decades of his life - would come to rank among the
world’s most highly respected collections, or that
individual photographs from it would consistently record
prices at auctions. |
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