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The photographs by Man Ray are some of the most thought provoking images ever produced. Man Ray shared in the new vision of the Dada and surreal movements. ... During the gap between wars the surrealist movement thrived, and Man Ray played a major role in this new way of seeing. Although Man Ray is known mostly for his rayographs, and surreal imagery of objects, he made a living selling fashion photographs. ...
Man Ray was one of the most influential photographers in modern history. Ray had a new vision that the world had never seen before. ... At age 20 Man Ray enrolled at Ferrer Center, a libertarian art school named for a Spanish anarchist. ... Man was chosen to symbolize humanity, and Ray, a ray of light. Ray also visited the “291” gallery of Alfred Stieglitz for professional advice in his youth. ... Man Ray deviated from this way of seeing in order to develop his own style.
World War I started in Europe in August of 1914, when Man Ray was 24 and a newlywed. Man Ray’s work cannot be separated from its historical context. The war was a time of pure chaos, and Man Ray was just beginning his professional career at this time. Man Ray’s work is linked to the precise time that it was produced, and it brings the viewers back in time to share a piece of the experience of life during the first half of the twentieth century.
Some of Man Ray’s ideas needed a more flexible medium, so he integrated painting into the world of photography. ... Man Ray started out as a painter, and originally bought a camera to photograph his paintings. ... In ‘Nusch au miroir 1935,’ (1) one of Ray’s fashion photographs, the subject is holding a mirror, which reflects the opposite side of her face, making the two-dimensional art form more three-dimensional and displaying two sides of the subject’s face and two perspectives in one image. Cubists employed a mirror-like broken or refracted reality in their paintings, and Ray’s use of a similar technique in this fashion photo demonstrates his adaptability, evolution, and willingness to learn from the diverse art forms of the time. ... Ray seems to be commenting on photography not only as realism, but also as a constructed and mechanical medium.
Man Ray rearranged the ordinary mundane world into something completely unique. ... The historical context of the inter-war period was filled with so much horror that it changed the way that Man Ray saw the world around him. ... Andre Breton helped to shape Man Ray’s artistic ideology. Breton stated that conscious thought and reason resulted in the bloodshed of thousands of soldiers in World War I, and the solution was to move “against the whole series of intellectual, moral and social obligation that continually and from all sides weigh down upon man and crush him. ... ” (Breton, 1) Breton was a founder in the Dada movement, and had a major influence on Man Ray’s art. ... ” (Breton, 7)
Ray tried to capture the subconscious through the mechanical medium of photography. Before Man Ray, photography had always been linked to reason because of its mechanical nature, but the new vision of Ray changed the medium forever.
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