The rayograph has been long admired but largely misunderstood. This important retrospective gives Man Ray’s eponymous ...

By engaging with art imaginatively, we can encounter that deeper reality that the Surrealists have always sought in their artwork.

Man Ray was one of the leading avant-garde thinkers of his generation, but how did he develop his unique approach? A watercolor sketch made while the artist was still in his early twenties has ...

Man Ray—the American artist and photographer who all but defined the early 20th-century Paris art scene—is associated with many things. He’s associated with Surrealism and Dada, and the likes of ...

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In his “rayographs,” he raved, he was finally “working directly with light itself.” The showstopper is the most expensive photograph ever sold at auction. By Arthur Lubow In the winter of 1921, Man ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has opened Man Ray: When Objects Dream, the first major exhibition to position the artist’s Rayographs at the center of his career. On view from September 14, 2025, ...

Man Ray was the ultimate networker. From the time he was twenty-three years old, when he asked Alfred Stieglitz to sit for a painted portrait, he had an uncanny knack for befriending important people.

Nearly 200 works from the Dada and Surrealist movements, including "Ingres' Violin" by Man Ray -- the world's most expensive photograph -- will join the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection, it ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Man Ray, an American artist who ...

Introduction: Man Ray and His Shadows -- 1. The Radnitsky Clan -- 2. Alfred Stieglitz and the Avant-Garde -- 3. Adon -- 4. Charles Daniel -- 5. Marcel Duchamp -- 6. Tristan Tzara and Francis Picabia - ...

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