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Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky) (American painter and photographer, 1890-1976)

Note: The influential and prolific American photographer and painter adopted the pseudonym Man Ray around 1909. He was a prominent force of Dada and Surrealism, and the only American to play a significant role in the development of those movements. His visits to Alfred Stieglitz's gallery, 291 introduced him to a wide variety of European contemporary artists, such as Picasso, Rodin, and Braque. Like many other artists of his time, he was also greatly influenced by the avant-garde Armory show in New York City in 1913. His paintings from this period show his fascination with the flatness of Modernism and his interest in the patterns of shapes rather than a realistic rendering of subject matter. During his trip to Paris in 1921, Man Ray began to experiment with photography, and may have been introduced to the photogram by Tristan Tzara. He adopted the method and called his works "rayographs," photographic images composed of ordinary objects placed on photo sensitive paper exposed to light. Together with his muse Lee Miller, he developed the solarization process which he used in his fashion and nude photography. With the onset of World War II, he lived in California and concentrated on painting and making objects. He returned to Paris in 1951, where he remained until his death. Man Ray was one of the first artists to make photographs seen as important works of art, equal to that of painting and sculpture.

Names:
	Man Ray (preferred,V,display,LC P)	....	named adopted as early as 1909
	Ray, Man (V,LC,Dutch-P,NA)	....	named adopted as early as 1909
	Radnitzky, Emmanuel (V)
	Rudnitsky, Emmanuel (V)
	Rudnitzky, Emmanuel (V)
	Radenski, Emmanuel (V)
	Man Rei (U)
	マン·レイ (U)
	Rudnizky, Emmanuel (U)
	Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky) (U,English-P,NA,U)
	מאן ריי (עמנואל רדניצקי) (U,Hebrew-P,NA,U)
	Radensky, Emmanuel (U)
	Radnitsky, Emmanuel (U)
	Ray [rejected] (LU,U)

Nationalities:
	American (preferred)
	French

Roles:
	artist (preferred)
	painter
	photographer
	engraver (printmaker)
	sculptor
	filmmaker
	landscapist
	cinematographer
	assemblage artist

Gender: male


Birth and Death Places:
	Born: Philadelphia (Philadelphia county, Pennsylvania, United States) (inhabited place) Died: Paris (Île-de-France, France) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:

collaborated with ....	Allégret, Marc
................................	(French film director and photographer, 1900-1973) [500067144]

collaborated with ....	Duchamp, Marcel
................................	(French painter, sculptor, and writer, 1887-1968) [500115393]

collaborated with ....	Miller, Lee
................................	(American photographer, 1907-1977) [500023704]

collaborated with ....	Picabia, Francis
................................	(French painter and writer, 1879-1953) [500006325]

collaborated with ....	Satie, Erik
................................	(French composer, 1866-1925) [500338521]

colleague of ....	Arp, Jean
......................	(French sculptor, painter, and collagist, 1886-1966) [500031000]

colleague of ....	Breton, André
......................	(French poet and writer, 1896-1966) [500125870]

colleague of ....	Ernst, Max
......................	(German painter, sculptor, and author, 1891-1976) [500115729]

colleague of ....	Masson, André
......................	(French painter and author, 1896-1987) [500030295]

colleague of ....	Miró, Joan
......................	(Spanish painter, printmaker, and ceramicist, 1893-1983) [500014094]

colleague of ....	Picasso, Pablo
......................	(Spanish painter, sculptor, and printmaker, 1881-1973) [500009666]

colleague of ....	Tzara, Tristan
......................	(Romanian poet and performance artist, 1896-1963, active in France) [500175780]

friend of ....	Stein, Gertrude
................	(American writer, collector, and patron, 1874-1946) [500273319]

member of ....	Collège de 'pataphysique‏
................	(International association, founded 1948) [500372350]

member of ....	Society of Independent Artists
................	(American and European artists' society, active 1916-1944) [500117049]

spouse of ....	Man Ray, Juliet
................	(American dancer and model, died 1991) [500289720]

student of ....	Brancusi, Constantin
..................	(Romanian sculptor, 1876-1957, active in France) [500016157]

student of ....	Henri, Robert
..................	(American painter, 1865-1929) [500005486]

teacher of ....	Brandt, Bill
..................	(English photographer, 1904-1983) [500026943]

teacher of ....	Breslauer, Marianne
..................	(German photographer, born 1909) [500087670]

teacher of ....	Makos, Christopher
..................	(American photographer, born 1948) [500069752]

teacher of ....	Savage, Naomi
..................	(American artist, 1927-2005) [500466510]

teacher of ....	Schmidgruber, Anton
..................	(Austrian sculptor, 1837-1909) [500197436]

teacher of ....	Wilp, Charles
..................	(German photographer, 1932-2005) [500116863]

List/Hierarchical Position:

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Persons, Artists

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Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky) (I)

Biographies:

(American painter and photographer, 1890-1976) ..... [VP Preferred]
(French artist, 1890-1976) ..... [AVERY]
(American photographer, 1890-1976) ..... [RKD]
(American painter, 1890-1976) ..... [IMJ]
(American artist) ..... [PROV]
(American artist, 1890-1976) ..... [MoMA]
(American artist, 1890-1976) ..... [PROV]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(artist) ..... [GRI Special Collections]
(artist, 1890-1976) ..... [GRL]
(American photographer, 1890-1976) ..... [Grove Art]
(French artist) ..... [AVERY]
(American painter, photographer, 1890-1976) ..... [BHA]
(American sculptor, 1890-1976) ..... [CL-Courtauld]
(American artist, 1890-1976) ..... [WL-Courtauld]
(American artist, 1890-) ..... [WCP]
(American painter, 1890-1976) ..... [PROV]
(American painter, photographer, and sculptor, 1890-1976) ..... [GRLPA]
(Artist, photographer, Paris, 1890-1976) ..... [AVERY]
(American artist, 1890-1976) ..... [WCI]
(Engraver, 1890-1976) ..... [WCI]
(American, 1890-1976, active France) ..... [JPGM]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:

マン·レイ ........	[GRL]
............	Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 80019625

מאן ריי (עמנואל רדניצקי) ........	[IMJ]
............................................	Israel Museum Jerusalem database

Man Ray ........	[AVERY, BHA, GRISC, GRL Preferred, GRLPA, Grove Art Preferred, JPGM Preferred, PROV, RKD, VP Preferred, WCI Preferred]
................	Avery Authority files (1963-)
................	Getty Research Library Photo Archive database
................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules
................	Grove Art artist database (1989-)
................	Grove Dictionary of Art online (1999-2002) accessed 4 Oct 2002
................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
................	J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-)
................	Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 80019625
................	Phillips and Kaiser, Harald Szeemann (2018)
................	Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 65785

Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky) ........	[IMJ Preferred, MoMA Preferred]
........................................................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
........................................................	Israel Museum Jerusalem database

Man Rei ........	[GRL]
................	Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 80019625

Radenski, Emmanuel ........	[AVERY, GRL]
......................................	Avery Authority files (1963-)
......................................	Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (1963-)
......................................	Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 80019625

Radensky, Emmanuel ........	[RKD]
......................................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 65785

Radnitsky, Emmanuel ........	[RKD]
........................................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 65785

Radnitzky, Emmanuel ........	[GRL, Grove Art, RKD, VP]
........................................	Grove Art artist database (1989-)
........................................	Grove Dictionary of Art online (1999-2002) accessed 4 Oct 2002
........................................	Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 80019625
........................................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 65785

Ray, Man ........	[AVERY Preferred, CL-Courtauld Preferred, GRISC Preferred, GRL, GRLPA Preferred, PROV Preferred, RKD Preferred, VP, WCP Preferred, WL-Courtauld Preferred]
..................	Avery Authority files (1963-)
..................	GRI Special Collections Finding Aids databases (1980-) 890164
..................	Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 80019625
..................	M. Knoedler & Co. records, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2012-)
..................	Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
..................	RILA/BHA (1975-2000)
..................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 65785
..................	Witt Library, Authority files

Ray [rejected] ........	[PROV]
.............................	Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)

Rudnitsky, Emmanuel ........	[GRL, RKD, WCI]
........................................	Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 80019625
........................................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 65785
........................................	Witt Computer Index database

Rudnitzky, Emmanuel ........	[BHA, GRL]
........................................	BHA, Authority file (1973-)
........................................	Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 80019625

Rudnizky, Emmanuel ........	[GRL]
......................................	Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 80019625


Note:
English	..........	[AVERY, CL-Courtauld, PROV, VP, WL-Courtauld]
	..........	Grove Art Online (2008-)
	..........	LCNAF Library of Congress Name Authority File [n.d.]
	..........	Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)

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