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Electricity - Kitchen (Electricite - Cuisine)
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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- 1931
- Medium
- Photogravure
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- a9bcb6b3-4b70-45a7-8b7f-ab0a928fda6e
In 1931 the Paris electric company CPDE commissioned Man Ray to produce a series of images promoting the personal uses of electricity. The resulting portfolio, *Électricité* , included pictures of the uses of electricity in each room of a house, as in *Cuisine* (Kitchen). The whimsical print lent a familiarity and friendliness to the mysterious power marketed by CPDE. The *Électricité* portfolio included ten Rayographs reproduced as photogravures. The company released it in an edition of five hundred for distribution to top CPDE executives and special customers.
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