Man Ray
Ray Man was born on August 27th, 1890, as Emmanuel Radnitzky. Radnitzky was the son of Jewish Immigrants who were living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Later moving to New York City with his family, Radnitzky was an avid painter and also studied art, engineering, and architecture. Somewhere during his time in New York, Radnitzky took up the fictitious name of Man Ray. It wasn’t until around 1915 that he became interested in pursing photography. He set aside his other artwork forms and dove into photography, opening up his own studio in 1917 (“Man Ray- Bio,” n.d.). Ray moved from Paris back to the United States multiple times throughout the rest of his life. He continued to work with various forms of art, mostly different forms of photography. …show more content…
I am currently pursuing my own potential photography career, so it was interesting to look at Man Ray’s photography work with the understanding that I already have of photography. His work and style is different from mine in many ways, but I know that no two photographers are the exact same. Honestly, when first viewing Man Ray’s work, I wondered how some of them could be so famous. A really popular piece of work, titled Le Violon d'Ingres, is an image of a nude woman sitting down, with two f-holes of a violin painted onto her back. Man created this by first taking the portrait, then painting the f-holes onto the actual image, then photographing the image again. The image doesn’t look like anything special, but I’m sure it was good work quality at the time it was made. He has another piece that’s a self portrait. His face is covered by light marks which he produced with long exposures. In the written marks, it looks just like scribbles. But he actually put his signature, backwards, in the writing. Once you look closer at the writing, you can differentiate some of the different letters or images within it. This image is pretty cool, it’s a self portrait which reveals stuff about Man, all while not even showing his face. A lot of his other work were abstract images. I’m not a huge fan of abstract art, but once I spent some time looking at his work I developed a sense of appreciation for it. There really is so much thought and work behind that style of art, even if it doesn’t look like
Ray Man was born on August 27th, 1890, as Emmanuel Radnitzky. Radnitzky was the son of Jewish Immigrants who were living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Later moving to New York City with his family, Radnitzky was an avid painter and also studied art, engineering, and architecture. Somewhere during his time in New York, Radnitzky took up the fictitious name of Man Ray. It wasn’t until around 1915 that he became interested in pursing photography. He set aside his other artwork forms and dove into photography, opening up his own studio in 1917 (“Man Ray- Bio,” n.d.). Ray moved from Paris back to the United States multiple times throughout the rest of his life. He continued to work with various forms of art, mostly different forms of photography. …show more content…
I am currently pursuing my own potential photography career, so it was interesting to look at Man Ray’s photography work with the understanding that I already have of photography. His work and style is different from mine in many ways, but I know that no two photographers are the exact same. Honestly, when first viewing Man Ray’s work, I wondered how some of them could be so famous. A really popular piece of work, titled Le Violon d'Ingres, is an image of a nude woman sitting down, with two f-holes of a violin painted onto her back. Man created this by first taking the portrait, then painting the f-holes onto the actual image, then photographing the image again. The image doesn’t look like anything special, but I’m sure it was good work quality at the time it was made. He has another piece that’s a self portrait. His face is covered by light marks which he produced with long exposures. In the written marks, it looks just like scribbles. But he actually put his signature, backwards, in the writing. Once you look closer at the writing, you can differentiate some of the different letters or images within it. This image is pretty cool, it’s a self portrait which reveals stuff about Man, all while not even showing his face. A lot of his other work were abstract images. I’m not a huge fan of abstract art, but once I spent some time looking at his work I developed a sense of appreciation for it. There really is so much thought and work behind that style of art, even if it doesn’t look like