Despite the fact that I have seen many, many art shows sanctifying 1920s modernism from seemingly every angle, the “Mouvement Flou” is a new one to me. The term, meaning the “blurry” or “out of focus” ...

Avant-garde photographer Man Ray may have written his name with a penlight in his self-portrait titled Space Writings. Getty Images In 1935, the avant-garde photographer Man Ray opened his shutter, ...

Man Ray—the American artist and photographer who all but defined the early 20th-century Paris art scene—is associated with many things. He’s associated with Surrealism and Dada, and the likes of ...

In his “rayographs,” he raved, he was finally “working directly with light itself.” The showstopper is the most expensive photograph ever sold at auction. By Arthur Lubow In the winter of 1921, Man ...

In Paris in the 1930s, there were few artists as influential as Man Ray. A pioneer of Surrealist photography, the American expat's use of modernist techniques to create groundbreaking images ...

"Published to accompany the exhibition Man Ray Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery, London, from 7 February to 27 May 2013, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, from 22 June to 8 ...

The rayograph has been long admired but largely misunderstood. This important retrospective gives Man Ray’s eponymous photograms the attention they deserve. ByJonathon Keats, Contributor. Forbes ...

Paris, Sept. 22, 1965: Artist Man Ray — photographed in his Paris studio — stands before some of his works. To his right stands a print of “Orchestra,” one of the 10 pochoirs (stencils) from the ...

Even as a child, the artist Man Ray used materials daringly. In his autobiography, “Self Portrait” (1963), he recalls smearing fresh green paint from shutters onto his face to startle his mother and ...