Man Ray, The Rope Dancer Accompanies Herself with Her Shadows, 1916, oil on canvas. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of G. David Thompson 1954. © 2009 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.(web image)NEW YORK, NY.- A trailblazing figure in 20th-century art, Man Ray (1890-1976) revealed multiple artistic identities over the course of his career – Dadaist, Parisian Surrealist, international portrait and fashion photographer – and produced many important and enduring works as a photographer, painter, filmmaker, writer, sculptor, and object maker. Relatively few people know that he was born Emmanuel Radnitzky to Russian Jewish immigrants. In fact, he spent a lifetime suppressing his background to the point of denying he was ever called anything but Man Ray. ...
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