Untitled

Artist Man Ray (American, 1890-1976)

Dateabout 1927

DimensionsOverall: 11 15/16 x 10 in. (30.4 x 25.4 cm)

MediumRayograph

ClassificationPhotographs

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1993.77

Not on View

Label TextPhotographer, 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.Exhibition HistoryTMA, Jan 22 - June 8, 1999 Pop Priints from the TMA Collection: July 7 - Oct.8 2006 Toledo Museum of Art, Werner Pfeiffer Selects, Feb. 13-May 10, 2015.