Man Ray

MAN RAY

Emmanuel Radnitzky also known as Man Ray

Was an American artist who spent most of his career in Paris, France. He was very well known in the art world for his avant-grade photography. Man Ray produced major works in a variety of media and considered himself a painter above all. He was also a renowned fashion and portrait photographer. Ray Man was also noted for his photogram’s which he had renamed it to be Raygrams. In 1999, ART news magazine named him one of the 25 most influential artists of the 20th century. He achieved this goal because of his ground breaking photography and also many other things that he did such as:

·         painting

·         sculpture

·         collage

·         assemblage

·         prototypes

This was eventually named as performance art and conceptual art.