[Redwoods at Big Sur]

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[Redwoods at Big Sur]

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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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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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Artist/Maker
Man Ray
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https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/107V31
Date
early 1940s
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Culture
American
Object Type
Print

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Object ID
a2b75a83-dea0-49ef-b9f9-615931b3facb
Object Type
Print
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Creator
Man Ray
  • Getty Museum field “Artist/Maker” · copied as is
Culture
American
  • Getty Museum field “Culture” · copied as is
Medium
Gelatin silver print
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Department
Photographs
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Credit Line
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
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Date
early 1940s
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Begin Year
1940
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End Year
1944
  • Getty Museum field “produced_by.timespan.end_of_the_end” · derived by LinkedCulture from the museum field

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