Man Ray

"Legendary Photography, painter, and maker of objects and films, Man Ray was on the most versatile and inventive artists of this century. Born in Philadelphia in 1890, he knew the worlds of Greenwich Village in the avant garde era following the 1913 Armory show; Paris in the 1920's and 1930's, where he played a key role in the Dada and Surrealist movements; The Hollywood of the 1940s, where he joined others chased by war from their homes in Europe; and finally,Paris again until his death in 1976."

Man Ray was most well known for his photos of peoples faces or parts of their face. He moved to France and experimented with photography, His experiments with photography included rediscovering how to make "camera-less" pictures, which he called rayographs, also known now as photograms. A photogram is an image made without a camera by placing objects onto the surface of a light-sensitive material such as photographic paper and then exposing it to light. The usual result is a negative shadow image that shows variations in tone that depends upon the transparency of the objects used.


I personally don't like Man Ray that much, I find his images can be at times interesting but more often then not i think that these simple, colourless portrait photos and bit dull and lacklustre

Personal Response

First of all I need photos, specifically I need photos of a model