[Redwoods at Big Sur]

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[Redwoods at Big Sur]

Creator

Man Ray

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
early 1940s
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
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Man Ray photographed this imposing redwood somewhere in northern California. He and Juliet made several trips to Big Sur to visit their friends the novelist Henry Miller and Margaret Nieman.

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