| Man Ray [male re?] (* August 27, 1890 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; November 18, 1976 in Paris; actually Rudnitzky or Emmanuel Emmanuel Radnitzky) was an American photographer, filmmaker, painter and object artist. Man Ray is one of the major artists of the Dada and Surrealism, but because of the complexity of his work generally associated with the modernity and is regarded as an important catalyst for the modern photography and film history to experimental film. His numerous portrait photographs of contemporary artists documenting the high phase of the cultural life in Paris in the 1920s. (Wikipedia) |
