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Man Ray (1890–1976) is one of the outstanding representatives of dadaism and surrealism and regarded as avant-garde initiator for modern photography and film history in the 20th century.
The photographer, painter and object artist is especially renowned for his numerous staged photographic portrayals of contemporary artists during the heyday of the 1920s/30s artistic and literary life in Paris.
Early on, he seeks to preserve autonomy in his urge for artistic creation. By extending the aesthetic of the photographic medium through photograms (Rayographs), solarisation and multiple exposures, he …