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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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- 1932
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- Solarized gelatin silver print
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- American
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- Photographs
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- Getty Museum
"The [solarization] technique allowed me to get away from photography, to get away from banality...and here was a chance to produce a photograph that would not look like a photograph," Man Ray told an interviewer in 1964. Man Ray used solarization to give an otherworldly quality to his subjects. The Sabattier effect, more commonly known as solarization, is a photographic technique closely associated with him. Named for the man who discovered it in 1862, the effect involves exposing a photographic print to light during the development process to create an unpredictable reversal of tones in some areas, especially around the edges of a subject.
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