[Broken chair with stump and ballet shoes]

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[Broken chair with stump and ballet shoes]

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American Photographer · 1890–1976

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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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Date: 1942
Medium: Solarized gelatin silver print
Culture: American
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

Created for the June 1943 cover of the New York journal *View*, this composition of disparate elements encourages the viewer to invent his own narrative. A foreboding quality, created with shadows, solarization, and the inexplicable juxtaposition of abandoned satin dance shoes and a broken chair under a gnarled tree stump, pervades the picture.

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