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Still Life
Creator
Man RayAmerican Photographer · 1890–1976
All works by this person →Born in Philadelphia, Emmanuel Radnitsky grew up in New Jersey and became a commercial artist in New York in the 1910s. He began to sign his name *Man Ray* in 1912, although his family did not change its surname to *Ray* until the 1920s. He initially taught himself photography in order to reproduce his own works of art, which included paintings and mixed media. In 1921 he moved to Paris and set up
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- 1924
- Medium
- Cliché verre
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 1dd94198-3ef1-468d-9898-c80ff03d122e
From the Getty Museum record
In making this still life using the *cliché verre* process, Man Ray included a drawing based on a photograph he took of the Marquise Luisa Casati at her first portrait sitting in 1922. The Marquise, an eccentric Italian aristocrat who was an important patron of vanguard artists, was one of Man Ray's earliest portrait commissions in Paris. During the 1920s, Man Ray photographed her at home in her salon, surrounded by her favorite objects, and in costume at a masquerade ball.
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