Self Portrait
Artist: Man Ray (American, 1890-1976)
Date: 1932
Dimensions:
11 5/8 x 8 in. (29.5 x 20.3 cm)
Medium: Vintage solarized gelatin-silver print
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number: 1987.207
Label Text:Man Ray, known to have produced many self portraits, considered this image one of his most significant—so significant that he choose to include it in a 1934 publication of his best images. In the 1930s Man Ray did a series of solarized portraits of people he felt were particularly important—including writer André Breton and artists Marcel Duchamp, Méret Oppenheim, Lee Miller, and André Derain. He then did a solarized self portrait, placing himself in his own pantheon of great modern artists.
Not on view
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