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Man Ray
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Ray, Man

Ray, Man
1890-1976
American artist. A founder of Dada in New York, he is known for his photographs, paintings, sculpture, films, and later experiments with surrealism.

real name: Emmanuel Radnitzky

Ray, Man (1890-1976), American painter, photographer, and leading figure in the artistic avant-garde in Paris of the  1920s. He was born in Philadelphia, studied at the National Academy of Design in New York City, and held his first  one-man show of paintings in 1912. With his friend, the French painter Marcel Duchamp, he helped to found the New  York City Dada group in 1917. Under Duchamp's influence, he began to work with new materials and techniques, for example, painting with an airbrush on glass and other surfaces. His "ready-mades" such as his flatiron with tacks  projecting from the bottom called The Gift (1921, Museum of Modern Art, New York City) were made from everyday  manufactured objects. He also pioneered in kinetic works, which have moving parts. Going to Paris in 1921, he  developed “Rayographs,” abstract images made by placing objects on light-sensitive surfaces. He also became  involved in surrealism and made art films, including L'Étoile de Mer (1928). The expressive possibilities of  photography interested him increasingly, and in California from 1940 to 1946 he taught the subject. In later years in  France, he experimented with new ways of making color prints, and he published an autobiography, Self Portrait  (1963).

• post rock track _Ray-O Graph_ MP3 by Jackie-O Motherfucker off of _Liberation_ on (2001)

Dreams

It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
Man Ray (1890-1976), U.S. photographer. Julien Levy exhibition catalogue, April 1945. Quoted in: Neil Baldwin, Man Ray Introduction (1988).

• in 1920, Man Ray designed his first chess set
• 1924 - Autumn. A chess game with Marcel Duchamp is filmed by Francis Picabia and Ren Clair in Entr'acte.
• 1921 - At the opening of his exhibition at the Galerie des Six, meets Erik Satie. With him, creates _Gift_ , an iron bristling with nails. Optical research with Marcel Duchamp which will result in Anmic Cinma.

• Exquisite Corpse - collaboration of Man Ray, Yves Tanguy, Joan Miro and Max Morise 1928

 

 
• _The Gift_  1921
• (also the name of a track by _Way Out West_ off of _The Gift_ 12" sample: "the moon and the stars...are the gifts you gave...")

 

• release _Mongoloid/Jocko Homo_ 7" by Devo on Booji Boy Records (1977)

• foldout insert includes ad for "Devo 3-piece diving kit"
• published by Man Ray Music
• 604 track _Man to Ray_ MP3by Juno Reactor off of _Retrodelica 2_ compilation CD on Flying Rhino as well as _Transmissions_  on Nova Mute

• samples: "He knows the moon, he knows the stars. He knows the milky way...";   "god, it sure looks beautiful. Sometimes I wish I could stay up here"  - from the film _The Right Stuff_ (1983)

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