Main entry:

Man Ray, 1890-1976.

Title & Author:

Man Ray : photographs / introduction by Jean-Hubert Martin ; with three texts by Man Ray ; [translated from the French, Man Ray, photographe, by Carolyn Breakspear].

Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Thames and Hudson, 1982.

Description:

255 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm

Notes:
"Based on an exhibition of Man Ray photographs, held at the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, from December 1981 to April 1982"--Title page verso.
Includes index.
Introduction / Jean-Hubert Martin -- Man Ray and the avant-garde / Philippe Sers -- Photography as consolation / Herbert Molderins -- Classic images -- In Man Ray's century / Janus -- Photography is not art / Man Ray -- Photography can be art / Man Ray -- Interview with Man Ray -- The Dada and Surrealist scene -- Intimacy and eroticism -- The enigma of things -- Behind the facade -- A fashionable photographer.

Summary:

Already in 1972, the National Museum of Modern Art had a major retrospective devoted to Man Ray. Like all exhibitions held in collaboration with the artist at that time, he extensively showed his creative activity and its fascinating diversity: paintings, collages, drawings, sculptures, assemblages, etc rayographs. In relation to the photographs, the other media were there in very small numbers. The current exhibition at the Centre Pompidou proposes therefore is the complementary part of the previous. The focus is on photography by bringing together hundreds of photographs, both masterpieces of unknown, or little known, aspects of his production: portraits of Dadaists and Surrealists friends, the celebrities of intellectual and artistic Paris, the Anglo-Saxon writers, creative photography Illustrative for surrealist magazines, nudes and rayographs but also views of Paris, the photo mode and commissioned portraits. Some of these blocks, unknown in original prints, have recently been drawn and will be shown for the first time. As for painting and objects, fifty highly selected pieces will give a renewed vision of success he has achieved in various moments of his life with fresh and inventive works.
"I paint what cannot be photographed, I photograph the things that I don't want to paint ... I would rather photograph an idea than an object, and a dream rather than an idea." Man Ray's own words suggest the essence of his brilliant, original, and deeply influential photographic oeuvre. Taking up photography in 1915 for the purpose of reproducing his paintings, he earned money doing the same for others when he went to live and work in Paris in 1921. This led to one of the richest careers in the history of photography, ranging from portraits of celebrated artists, musicians, and writers such as Andre Breton, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie, Arnold SchÜnberg, T.S. Eliot, and Gertrude Stein, to the pictures using light effects outside the camera for which he is famous (cliche-verres, rayographs, and solarizations). These photographs are among the most exciting and revealing manifestations of the profusely fertile artistic impulse which made Man Ray equally celebrated as a painter, sculptor, writer, and filmmaker. Besides many classic images, this book includes a huge number of photographs that have never been seen before, including portraits of Virginia Woolf and Antonin Artaud and a large selection of erotic pictures. They add up to a truly revealing look at Man Ray, whom Cocteau called "the great poet of the darkroom."

ISBN:

0500540799
9780500540794
0500274738
9780500274736

Subject:

Man Ray, 1890-1976.
Photography, Artistic Exhibitions.
Photographie artistique Expositions.
Photography, Artistic
American photography 1900-1950 Collections from individual artists

Form/genre:

Exhibition.
Exhibition publications.
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
Portrait photographs France 20th century Reproductions.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Man Ray, 1890-1976, author, photographer.
Martin, Jean-Hubert, 1944- writer of introduction.
Breakspear, Crolyn, translator.
Centre Georges Pompidou.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 288980
Call No.: BIB 231087
Status: Available