Cactus Diamond, 1969
Man Ray
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Description
Provenance: Gio Marconi
Dimensions: 60 x 70 cm
Signature: Pencil signature
Product conditions: Mint
Technique: Coloured silkscreen – 50 copies
MAN RAY
Born on August 27, 1890, in Philadelphia to a Jewish family, Emmanuel Radnitzky grew up and completed his studies in New York, where he worked as a designer and graphic designer and gave himself the pseudonym “Man Ray”. In 1914 he began photographing his own works. Having met Marchel Duchamp, he formed the American branch of the Dada movement with him. When Duchamp moved to Paris in 1921, Man Ray followed him and here he achieved fortune thanks to his ability as a photographer in 1922 he produced his first rayographs, photographic images obtained by placing objects directly on sensitive paper. When surrealism was officially born in 1924, Man Ray was the first surrealist photographer. At the outbreak of the Second World War, the Jewish artist was forced to return to the United States where he taught photography and exhibited. When the war was over he returned to Europe; in Venice in 1975 he exhibited his photographs at the Biennale, and Montparnasse, a second home for him where he died on 18 November 1976.
