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Born
Emmanuel Radnitsky in Philadelphia, PA, Man Ray studied painting at the
Ferrer Center and other New York schools. He began working with photography
through Alfred Steiglitz.
Man Ray began to paint in the Cubist style after the revolutionary New
York Armory show of 1913. Man Ray worked closely with Marcel Duchamp with
whom he pioneered the Dada movement. He moved to Paris in 1921 where he
became a major figure among the Surrealists for his work in film and photographic
techniques (rayographs).
Man Ray spent the war years in California but returned to Paris in 1951
and picked up where he left off creating paintings and objects in his
uniquely humorous, thought-provoking and insightful style. Man Ray's major
books were created in the 1930's with the publication of "Electricite,"
1931; "Les Mains Libres" in 1937 and "Resurrection des Mannequins,"
1966.
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