Main entry:

Man Ray, 1890-1976.

Title & Author:

ManRay : photography and its double / edited by Emmanuelle de l'Ecotais and Alain Sayag ; with essays by Jean-Jacques Aillagon [and others] ; translated from the French by Deke Dusinberre, from the German by Donna Wiemann ; editor, English language edition Herbert R. Lottman.

Publication:

Corte Medera, CA : Gingko Press, [1998]
©1998

Description:

257 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm

Notes:
"This book was originally published to coincide with the exhibition, Man Ray, la photographie à l'Envers, organized by the Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, and held at the Galeries nationales du Grand Palais in Paris, from April 29-June 29, 1998"--Title page verso.
"Man Ray, n. masc., synon, de joie, jouer, jouir" / foreword by Jean-Jacques Aillagon -- Preface by Warner Spies -- From one show to another, Introduction by Alain Sayag -- Duplicating reality: the profession of photographer. How I became Man Ray: the piecework photographer / by Michel Frizot -- Man Ray, A portrait of the artist as fashion photographer / by Serge Bramly -- "Authentic" photography / by Emmanuelle de l'Ecotais -- Delineating reality: photographic creativity. Art and portraiture / by Emmanuelle de l'Ecotais -- Rayographs / by Floris M. Neusüss and Renate Heyne -- Denaturing reality: photography as a depiction of Non-Euclidean space. Duchamp and Man Ray: exchanging glances / by Michel Sanouillet -- Beyond mirroring the object / Alain Sayag -- Interview with Lucien Treillard.
Translated from the French and German.

Summary:

Man Ray (1890-1976), was one of the co-founders of New York Dada. When he arrived in Paris in the 1920s he was already friends with Duchamp and many Parisian Surrealists, who welcomed him with great enthusiasm. He is unquestionably recognized as the most original photographer of our century. With his photographs, Rayographs, solarizations, and various experimentation with Surrealist doctrines in the darkroom, his photographic contribution to art and especially surrealism is matchless. Thanks to his famous portraits of contemporaries - artists, writers and celebrities - he also became the most notable chronicler of the inter-national Avant-garde movement of the 1920s and 1930s. This remarkable monograph published to coincide with the historic exhibition at the Centre Pompidou, is entirely dedicated to Man Ray's photographic oeuvre. The Centre Pompidou is the recipient of the Man Ray archives - some 13,000 negatives and 5,000 prints - which reveal for the very first time never before published photographs (a great amount consisting of erotic compositions). One-third of these photographs have never been seen. Not only the finished photos, but also the process - crops, background manipulation and other methods. The book with its new images presents for the very first time a true picture of the artist, and a vital addition to the many publications about Man Ray that appeared throughout this century, many of which are long out of print. This monograph is a must for Man Ray experts, for those interested in photography, and a wonderful introduction to students and others not yet sufficiently familiar with Man Ray's work.

ISBN:

3927258660
9783927258662

Subject:

Man Ray, 1890-1976 Exhibitions.
Ray, Man, 1890-1976 Catalogues.
Man Ray, 1890-1976
Photography, Artistic Exhibitions.
Photographie artistique Expositions.
Photography, Artistic

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

L'Ecotais, Emmanuelle de.
Sayag, Alain, 1941-
Aillagon, Jean-Jacques.
Lottman, Herbert R.
Musée national d'art moderne (France)
Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (France)

Man Ray

Holdings:

Location: Library main 209242
Call No.: TR140.R263 M3 1998
Status: Available