Untitled
Artist: Man Ray (American, 1890-1976)
Date: about 1927
Dimensions:
Overall: 11 15/16 x 10 in. (30.4 x 25.4 cm)
Medium: Rayograph
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number: 1993.77
Label Text:Photographer, painter, sculptor, and filmmaker Man Ray was a central figure in New York Dada, an avant-garde art and literary movement that celebrated the absurd and rejected the “reason” of capitalist society. In 1922, Man Ray reinvented the old technique of the photogram, which he dubbed "Rayographs." To a patron, he described using "photographic materials without the camera: objects found or forms constructed by myself intercepting arranged lights that are thrown on [light] sensitive paper. Each work is an original." Called "pure Dada creations," these cameraless works subvert the expectation of the factual nature of photography to create a poetic vision of things, one rich in allusion and mystery.
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